“…Over the past fifty years, an extensive literature has appeared regarding the production of urban peripheries in São Paulo. These studies have sought to analyse the informal character of access to land (Rolnik, 1997; Maricato, 2003), housing construction from self‐construction to housing programmes (Maricato, 1979, 2003; Rolnik, 2009; Caldeira, 2017; Cardoso, Jaenisch and Aragão, 2017; Ferreira et al, 2020), the selective and unequal nature of public investment in urban infrastructure and services (Kowarick, 1993; Villaça, 1998; Oliveira, 2003; Marques and Torres, 2005; Santos, 2008), internal socioeconomic differences (Torres et al, 2003), and residents' political organisation in search of better living conditions (Caldeira, 2002; Holston, 2008).…”