Housing provision and land rights in the quilombola community Ribeirão da Mutuca (Brazil)
Elizabeth Othon de Souza
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo FAUUSP
This paper aims to review the relationship between the land rights of quilombola communities
and public housing policies, showing the case of the quilombola community Ribeirão da Mutuca,
formed by 120 families, located in Mato Grosso, central region of Brazil. The particularities
found in the countryside form a complex network of relationships that reveal the great challenge
of developing studies, reflections and public policies of intervention on these territories. The
housing program alone has limitations that prevent it from addressing a habitat issue when
disconnected from other policies, especially in cases of traditional populations that demand a
holistic and socially responsible views to ensure that the environment, built with public
resources, will respect the livelihoods of each social group and allow these populations to fully
express their identity.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2019
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