This study deals with the urban land regularization of social interest, which as a public policy
aims to guarantee the social right to housing, through the adoption of legal, urban, social and
environmental measures for predominantly low-income families that informally occupy urban
spaces. The research was carried out in the informal urban settlement called Bengui - Etapa 2
located in the Bengui neighborhood, which was subject to land regularization in 2013
Programa Municipal de Regularização Fundiária do Município de Belém “Chão Legal”. The
study analyzed whether these actions contributed to the permanence of families in the
regularized settlement or if they only made it possible to enter new lots in the formal real
estate market. The research combined evidence of quantitative and qualitative orders, and
identified that of the 287 regularized lots, the number of families that remained after
regularization was above ninety per cent. Through interviews it was obtained the point of
view of the residents as to the factors that contribute to the families that have had their
regularized properties remain or abandon the settlement after land regularization, as well as
the factors that induce other people to seek this area as a place of residence. A brief analysis
was also carried out on the real estate valuation in the settlement and in the Bengui
neighborhood under the perspective of appropriation of this valuation by the real estate
market, by the municipality and by the residents. For the residents of the Bengui-Step 2
settlement, the location of real estate, which favors access to the various services used in their
daily lives, is the most relevant factor for the permanence of the families in the place, and as
complementary factors related: the existing infrastructure at local level even if it does not
meet all of their needs, the already established support links in the area and the security they
attribute to the titling of their property against possible threats of eviction, as occurs in areas
not regularized in the name of the occupants. Despite recognizing the appreciation of real
estate arising from land regularization, they were not likely to dispose of their regularized
lots
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