Successes and shortcomings for ZEIS-3 housing in São Paulo: the case of “25 de Janeiro”
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2016
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São Paulo, a city of 11 million residents as of 2014, is known for having extreme socio-spatial segregation. It is also a city with a significant housing deficit (230,000 housing units according to the most recent data1) which disproportionately affects the lowest income families.
The federal City Statute in 2001 made possible the creation of zoning instruments known as ZEIS (Zonas Especiais de Interesse Social, or “Special Zones of Social Interest”), which designate areas inhabited by low-income populations in the city so that they may be eligible for regularization or improvement, thereby reducing their susceptibility to real estate speculation.4 The authority to define the different types of zones and to determine their geographical locations was left up to municipalities.
The 2002 Master Plan for São Paulo called for four ZEIS zones in São Paulo, depending on the existing conditions and features in each area. In São Paulo, only one of them – ZEIS-3 – was created to maintain low-income housing stock or to stimulate private-sector housing production in abandoned or underutilized parcels in central parts of the city, where infrastructure is complete and where amenities are abundant. ZEIS-3 were delineated under the logic that their ample access to services, jobs, and infrastructure would provide greater opportunities for low-income residents than those available in more peripheral parts of the city, thereby helping to combat the pervasive socio-spatial segregation found in São Paulo.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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