The article deals with the historical analysis and critique of social housing in Brazil, explaining the origins that transformed it into a problem, numerically expressed as a deficit and always into the prospect of a solution. The objective here is to critically present the historical construction of housing deficit in search of what formed it, avoiding the understanding that the increase of units stock of housing, as proposed by the government Minha casa, Minha Vida, is the solution to the Brazilian housing crisis.Keywords: social housing, journals, housing deficit. Déficit del hábitat urbano: ¿un problema a ser resuelto o una lección a ser aprendida?Denise Morado Nascimento, Raquel Carvalho de Queiroz Braga ResumenEl artículo trata del análisis histórico de la habitación social en Brasil, explicitando los fundamentos que la transformaron en un problema, expreso numéricamente como déficit y seguido de la perspectiva de una solución. El objetivo aquí es exponer, críticamente, la construcción histórica del déficit del hábitat urbano, en busca de lo que le "ha dado forma", evitando el entendimiento de que el aumento de la cantidad de unidades de viviendas, como el propuesto por el programa del gobierno federal:"Mi casa, mi vida", sea solución de la crisis de la habitación brasileña.Palabras clave: habitación social, periódicos, déficit del hábitat.

Resumo O artigo trata do enfrentamento cotidiano no acesso ao direito à moradia e à cidade. Como pano de fundo do debate teórico, têm-se as ocupações urbanas em contraponto aos empreendimentos do Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida em Belo Horizonte, diante de uma crise urbana agravada pela: (1) intensificação do padrão periférico das cidades; (2) vinculação do capital imobiliário ao capital financeiro; (3) imobilidade política em se realizar a reforma urbana; (4) imposição da propriedade privada condominial; (5) ineficiência do judiciário; (6) associação Estado-capital; (7) discursos estrategicamente construídos, em nada propositivos. O objetivo é entrelaçar dimensões teóricas (Jacques Rancière, Aristóteles, Marx e Chantal Mouffe) vinculadas às possibilidades de redistribuição dos processos de tomada de decisão em torno da cidade.

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to understand the information phenomenon through the means of informational practice-the way of acting that gives identity to a group-in a social field and knowledge domain. Design/methodology/approach-By relating Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture to the domain analysis approach of Birger Hjørland, the intention was to achieve a comprehensive interpretation of the structure which generates the discourse communities and, also, of the social structure from which they are derived. All of these form the conditions for understanding the efforts, objectives and interests of the actors in the social field that causes them to develop determined informational practices. The field of architecture was elected for analysis. Findings-The conclusions show that both the products and subjects of a domain of knowledge, inserted in social fields, are expressions of their informational practice. Research limitations/implications-The authors believe the theoretical model based on Bourdieu and Hjørland's concepts, here built to analyze the architecture domain, may be used to analyze other domains. Originality/value-Domain analysis is employed as an approach to the study of the information aspects but here supported by the sociological concepts of Bourdieu. Thus, it is possible to understand what, how and why the informational practices are constituted inside a domain of knowledge, and, fundamentally, interpret the historical, cultural, and social dimensions that influence the construction of information.

Interview with Dutch architect N. John Habraken; his Supports' theory is made explicit aligned with the approach of the Open Building movement. It aims to understand it in order to make it possible into the context of Brazilian contemporary architecture.

This essay demonstrates how mediations (called Dialogues) between the University of Belo Horizonte and the residents of the Eliana Silva Occupation in that city have secured not only the right to urban land and constitutional rights that have been historically violated in Brazil, but also the right to that which is of common interest. The essay speaks to Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's contention that what is common goes far beyond the provision of public services. This starting point allows us to see that urban occupations are politically empowered, to the extent that poor people consciously violate the Brazilian law governing the right of possession and ownership over urban land through creative and cooperative actions that are undertaken and extended across networks. This essay will focus on the centrality of the struggle to build a common communication platform serving to nourish social ties and sociability among those social actors who share the same human deprivation—lack of access to what should be widely available to all citizens. On the theoretical side, the essay takes Pierre Bourdieu, Bruno Latour and Milton Santos as its guides to understanding how social actors act in the struggle for socio‐spatial coexistence and urbanity.