Sustainable discourse and the relocation practice: Case study in housing intervention of the Growth Acceleration Program in Belém (PA)

Abstract

Urban relocations have been the most common practices to reduce the number of socially and environmentally vulnerable precarious settlements in the Metropolitan Region of Belém in recente decades, but their results and effectiveness are still debatable. This article seeks to analyze the discursive interpretations and approaches to the concept of urban sustainability in a housing intervention of social interest originating from the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) in Belém (PA), based on the Technical Social Work Project (PTTS), aiming to establish nexus of sustainability among the population served by the Program while carrying out the intervention works - the Taboquinha Project, located in the Icoaraci district. Qualitative research was used based on technical projects, documents, as well as semi-structured interviews with technical writers and executors. It can be seen that in relation to sustainability, based on the leisure category, the focus of the study, the Project reproduces spaces unrelated to the material and substantive experiences of the subjects served, disregarding their needs and daily practices.