Tinha uma casa no meio do caminho: inundações e remoções em Ururaí, Campos dos Goytacazes/RJ

Abstract

This article aims to discuss central aspects of the removal processes, through the “Morar Feliz” Program, to which the residentes of Ururaí, were susceptible, under the justification of the “risk” of floods. In this way, we presente the contradictions of the largest housing program developed in the interior of Brazil. We start from the premise that the centrality of “Morar Feliz” ins’t to ensure house in worthy conditions for resettled subjects, however, the main objective was to promote processes of expropriation, that allowed the revaluation of urban space and the opening of new valuation niches for capital, while exasperating a living condition pf the resettled people, who came to live with a framework of successive expropriations and denials of rights. For this, the discussion presented has as reference of analysis the database of Núcleo de Pesquisa e Estudos Socioambientais of Universidade Federal Fluminense (NESA/UFF Campos). We note that the program operates in a similar way to the historical trajectory of the materialization of brazilian housing policy, which is to remove the subjects that is found in arches of land valuation, highlighting the manufacture of consensus by the “risk” discourse.