The land tenure regularization plan: concepts and practices
In an attempt to remedy the serious social and urban inequality found in Brazilian cities and the prevalence of the informal city over the formal city, federal legislation has clearly evolved to promote the application of land regularization by municipalities. Adhering to this guideline, municipalities committed to the struggle for the right to decent housing and the right to the city have developed laws that require the implementation of the land regularization plan as an instrument for planning the regularizing activity. In conclusion, since there is no legislation at the federal level that presents the specific conformation and scope for the instrument, the analysis of the minimum requirements of land regularization plans in municipal laws makes clear the disparity between the requirements. This gap, coupled with the small academic production on the subject, opens a gap to the elaboration and application of the instrument carried out without a theoretical deepening capable of supporting the choice for a minimum content, the necessary steps of popular participation in its elaboration and the reach of its determinations. The municipalities that have a structured housing policy have ruled and practiced in different ways the use of this instrument. In this sense, the objective of the research is to identify, from the practical experiences, how the regularization plan has been elaborated and executed, trying to identify procedures, gaps to overcome and possible advances.