This thesis discusses the presence of sustainability speeches in the production of urban space
promoted by the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC), in its Urbanization of Precarious
Settlements (UAP) line, for the urban removal of families at socio-environmental risk
(resettlement and relocation). Its objectives are to analyze the state's use of urban
sustainability discourses; analyze the influence of change of residence processes on aspects
related to the material life of families; analyze the links and connections between
sustainability discourses and the conceptual contribution of housing of Brazilian social
interest; and to analyze the relationship between sustainability discourses present in the
formulation and execution of PTTS for housing interventions for urban removal. To this end,
the theoretical development of the discussions in the last decades on sustainable development
and the qualitative adaptation imposed on the concept were made to become, at present, urban
sustainability or simply sustainability. Based on a qualitative methodology supported by
historical-dialectical materialism, four case studies were carried out on PAC interventions,
based on its Technical Social Work Projects (PTTS), housing projects aimed at removing
families occupying vulnerable environmental spaces and socially, in two municipalities in the
Metropolitan Region of Belém (RMB): the Taboquinha Community, in the Icoaraci District,
in Belém; the Faith in God Community, in the Tenoné neighborhood, in Belém; the Jardim
Jader Barbalho Community, in the Aurá neighborhood, in Ananindeua; and the Pantanal
Community, in the Mangueirão neighborhood, in Belém. From the use of Discourse Analysis
and the approach of three essential categories for daily analysis, according to Lefebvre (1980),
- family, leisure and work - the analysis expressed, from the perspective of the agents
involved and the trajectory of the subjects in the transition between spaces and their daily
lives, the distance between the implementation of the policy and sustainability in the
environmental, social and economic perspectives, intended in the heart of the Program,
demonstrating that: it is not possible to think of peripheral housing estates to remove families
detached from reality and the economic system that produces it and the implications that this
production brings with it for space and society; there are weaknesses in the conceptual use of
sustainability as rhetoric for a new proposal for urban regulation; PTTS disregard the needs of
families and the material and substantive experiences of the subjects served, ignoring their
needs and daily practices in these spaces produced in an abstract way, which since their
formulation denied the experiences of the population served, via the absence of leisure spaces,
disconnection with the world of work, permanence of risks, which opposes them to fully
social spaces and distances them from a perspective of the right to the city, being interpreted
as (un) sustainable spaces from the socio-environmental point of view.
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