Collective mobilization in the struggle for access to water, incorporated in the struggle for housing: the trajectory of young land occupations in the South region of São Paulo.
The present research project aims to understand and document the processes of collective mobilization, carried out by social housing movements in the city of São Paulo, in the struggle for the right to access to water in an interface with the struggle for the right to the location of land and housing. The project's object of study is precarious settlements, peripheral territories (D'ANDREA, 2019. p. 933), also called popular territories of existence and (re) existence (SIMAS, 2019). The deepening of two specific case studies, called young occupations of urbanized land and with less than 10 years of training, both located in the southern periphery of São Paulo and in areas of environmental protection and water sources, will be used for a better understanding of the phenomena (VALLADARES, 2005. p.91) and will serve as a subsidy for the construction of the debate through bibliographic references that dealt with or approached the theme. The work will be complemented by the deepening of the actions of the Água Legal Program of Sabesp - Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo, aimed at the regularization of water supply in regions of high social vulnerability, in which supply is usually precarious. Finally, the dissertation will feature a historical recovery of these places and interviews with leaders, professional technicians and researchers from research laboratories and university extension. The purpose of the research is to identify the mismatches and approximations of claims for the right to water and the right to housing, both within the context of the right to the city (HARVEY, 2012), in addition to trying to understand the challenges, advances and collective mobilizations of these social subjects to reduce the distance between the struggle and their real needs.