Self-urbanization process of the Anchieta Grajaú Occupation: a contribution to thinking about interventions in slums

Abstract

This text presents an experience of intervention in slums, through a self-urbanization process in Ocupação Anchieta Grajaú, located in the south area in the city of São Paulo, developed by the Movimento Anchieta resident`s association and the technical advisement Peabiru TCA, with the collaboration of different subjects and institutions. Within the scope of this organization's activities, this line of work represents a direct approach with slums and occupations that are inserted in the demands for decent housing and against removal attents, which is configured as an instrument of struggle but also affecting territorially with qualitative changes. In the case in question, the work is structured from a community articulation movement to avoid repossession and think about alternatives to land regularization, context in which the partnership with Peabiru was established. After carrying out surveys and negotiating meetings with owners and public authorities and the elaboration of a general urban plan, physical interventions were started in the occupation, with plot demarcation, displacement of families and construction of embryo houses, that are inserted in the experience nominated of self-urbanization. This process is reported in this text, revealing potentialities, limits and contradictions which seek to contribute to advancing in developing forms of intervention in slums and to create public policies that cover this demand.