Abstract:Tenements have been a housing option for the poor in downtown São Paulo since the 1870s. Studies on tenements in São Paulo have been conducted for more than a century, although the major subject missing from the literature has been the tenement intermediaries or operators, the articulating agent of the entire scheme. The text is based on six interviews conducted with tenement landlords and intermediaries in the central region of São Paulo. Through discourse analysis 6 analytical categories have been listed: 1.… Show more
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