The home ownership paradigm and the right to housing

Abstract

The right to housing and the dream of owning a home should be complementary issues, but they prove to be contradictory when, in the search for this dream's realization, many families renounce rights such as access to basic public services, responsible for integrating these citizens into the social environment. This article presents a study on the representativeness of the right to own a home for the worker, and the role of the State in its guarantee. It highlights the fact that the housing policy is based on treating this social right in a commercialized way, subordinated to the interests of the real estate market. A bibliographic review is used as a methodology, where there is a basis to confirm that the guarantee of the right to housing is seen as inseparable from the ownership of the house.