Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem – Teto: política habitacional e construção de cidadania em Brasília – Distrito Federal

Abstract

The right to housing and the dignity of the human person are linked, as it is, above all, the place where one lives, fully of the term, fulfilling a social role, from which it is inseparable. In this way, individuals and groups, sometimes organized into movements, plead for this right, which the Brazilian State guaranteed by Federal Law No. the country presents. Of these, the Homeless Workers Movement (MTST) emerged in Brazil as the most representative, with a branch in Brasília, Federal District, which we will discuss here in terms of its experiences with the local community in search not only of a home, but also of ways of finding oneself as a social and political group, builder of citizenship. Thus, when dealing with this topic, issues not only intrinsic to Housing are addressed, but, above all, issues that lead us to reflect on the political and administrative management of the government and of some social movements in recent years. We focus here, in particular, from 2010 onwards, when its action is present, taking the Sol Nascente occupation as its most important reference. Work that we will methodologically base on documentary foundations and interviews with its leaders and some of its protagonists. We seek not only to present the historical dilemmas of social exclusion and the housing issue in Brazil and, in particular, in the Federal District; but also to discuss about the social problems that it entails in vast social groups, judging by the huge general and local housing deficit, which ends up affecting society as a whole. As its effects propagate through the social fabric in a wide and lasting way, to which public policies should look more comprehensively than a mere market calculation, as more than consumers these individuals become citizens in the process of recognizing themselves as a group and subjects of rights. Which only occurs in organized action.