Banca de DEFESA: ÂNGELA KERLEY PEREIRA LIMA

RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS IN METROPOLITAN CRAJUBAR: 

THE AGE OF REAL ESTATE DYNAMICS

real estate dynamics; production of market housing; valorization of urban space; residential segregation; CRAJUBAR.

Especially in the last two decades, due to the policies of financing and opening of housing credit, the social agents linked to the real estate market of Crato, Juazeiro do Norte and Barbalha – cities that make up the metropolitan CRAJUBAR – have been positioning themselves as competitive subjects in the extraction of profitability from urban land. In addition, the socioeconomic and population dynamics of these three cities enhance the attraction of the sector to the region and thus the introduction of real estate capital in the triple metropolitan territory reflects, in addition to a new social order, a significant process of spatial transformation where the urban landscape itself denounces it. This raised the following question: how has market real estate production been impacting the socio-spatial organization and contributing to a new trend of residential segregation in metropolitan CRAJUBAR? Having, therefore, as a general objective: to understand residential segregation as a product of the real estate production of market housing, in the areas of urban expansion of the metropolitan CRAJUBAR. To achieve this purpose, the research used the combination of quantitative and qualitative procedures that enabled a set of data supported by real estate, census, documentary, georeferential and field research indicators. Based on the theoretical-methodological framework, it was evidenced that the introduction of a new housing pattern for the lower middle class in the locations previously consolidated as rural in CRAJUBAR reveals a significant change in the socio-spatial organization of the region. This phenomenon not only highlights the profitability strategies of the real estate market, but also highlights its capacity for permeability in previously less explored areas. Such a transformation not only reflects the ongoing economic and social dynamics, but also raises questions about the distribution of resources and access to public services in these newly urbanized areas. In theory, it was sought to understand how the residential real estate production, focused on market production, has been impacting the socio-spatial organization and contributing to a new trend of residential segregation in the metropolitan CRAJUBAR. Thus, the research maintains the support that the investments of the real estate market aimed at the production of market housing are responsible for the construction of the segregation process of the lower middle class, mainly located in the areas of urban expansion of the metropolitan territory in question.

impacting the socio-spatial organization and contributing to a new trend of residential segregation, thus aiming to contribute to the analysis of these three areas in the face of the process of urban expansion, focusing on restructuring and the socio-spatial effects caused by housing production that reinforce unequal access to the city.