The Reintegration of Possession of the Housing Settlement "Pinheirinho" in São José dos Campos - SP, Brazil: The Political Question, the Legal Question, and the Right to Housing

Abstract

This article analyses of the Judicial decisions handed down between October 2011 and January 2012 in the Judicial Action of Reintegration of Possession that expelled more than 6,000 people from the area known as “Pinheirinho”, located in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, belonging to the “Failed Mass of the Selecta”, elucidating how the Judiciary, in tune with the Executive and Legislative Powers, in the municipal sphere, considered the case as “a matter that affects private law, despite the number of persons affected by the order and the constitutional guarantee of the right to housing.

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Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Politics, Power, and Institutions

KEYWORDS

PINHEIRINHO, REINTEGRATION OF OWNERSHIP, RIGHT TO HOUSING

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