PERSPECTIVES ON THE NEW SOCIAL POLICY IN THE GLOBALIZATION OF INEQUALITY AND THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT'S HOUSING PROGRAM

Abstract

Since the 1980’s, the growing social inequality is no longer exclusive to countries belonging to the old third world. The recent crisis, however, seems to have reached the core of the European welfare states and their renowned capacity to habitually sustain acceptable standards of inequality and poverty rates in their countries, as well as other world powers, which seemed unshakeable throughout most of the twentieth century. In an essentially urban world, this means having to deal with the crisis in the context of large agglomerations: a new urbanism and a renewed repertoire of urban policies emerge in the field of “social technologies” of this time committed to the elaboration of a deep social fracture. Under these conditions, the experience of non-central countries can contribute both to the sphere of “social management technologies” and to the critical support for interpreting such a reality.