O anjo caído na terra prometida: Propriedade, regulação e conflitos na reurbanização periférica da São Paulo do século XXI

In this article, we view the expansion fronts of urban borders as privileged spaces to understand practical agencies, the network of actors, and the power games involved in the production of urban land and housing markets in São Paulo. An unavoidable presence in those places today, the men of Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC – First Capital Command), in interaction with this intricate network of actors, act as operators of these markets and the internal management of popular territories. The fact is that the PCC's businesses expand as occupations and precarious settlements expand. In the ambivalent game of protection and extortion, between acceptance and coercion, they mobilize power resources in agreements, disputes, conflicts, and accommodations that constitute the production and management of informal land and housing markets.

Urban borders, markets in dispute: power games in the production of spaces

Lacerda,

Telles

2024

Fronteiras urbanas, mercados em disputa: jogos de poder na produção de espaços

Lacerda,

Telles

2024

Resumo Neste artigo, tomamos as frentes de expansão das fronteiras urbanas como espaços privilegiados para apreender os agenciamentos práticos, trama de atores e jogos de poder na produção dos mercados urbanos de terra e moradia em São Paulo. Presença hoje incontornável nesses lugares, os homens do PCC, em interação com essa trama intrincada de atores, atuam como operadores desses mercados e da gestão interna de territórios populares. O fato é que os negócios do PCC se expandem conforme também se expandem ocupações e assentamentos populares. No jogo ambivalente de proteção e extorsão, entre aceitação e coerção, mobilizam recursos de poder nos acordos e disputas, conflitos e acomodações que são constitutivos da produção e gestão dos mercados informais de terra e moradia.

Informal Real Estate in São Paulo’s peripheries: illegalisms under a rent-seeking logic

Guerreiro

2024

The production of São Paulo's peripheral territories has changed due to the crisis in salaried employment, changes in socio-economic profile, access to credit, public housing policies, and the formation of a multi-scalar market arbitrated by illegal market operators. Entrepreneurial business networks, including real estate, have emerged as an investment opportunity for the money accumulated in these territories. New buildings in border areas with a rent-seeking use point to new power arrangements based on illegalisms that articulate scales in a market-based production, disputing the forms of political association of the previous period. The methodology is based on secondary sources and direct field research in São Paulo's slums, carried out by a multidiscipli nary team over the last five years.