The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the set of actions aimed at women within
the municipal land title regularization programs executed by the Belém Development
and Administration Company (CODEM), the Chão Legal Program, in effect between
the years 2010 and 2020, and the Terra da Gente Program, its replacement since
2021. Therefore, we investigate the historical context in Brazil, in the Amazon and in
the municipality of Belém, which structured the access to land property under
exclusionary criteria, based on social markers of gender, race and class, which also
acted on the construction of the related legislation and, for a long time, were obstacles
to women's access to land and its secure tenure, a right that only more recently, from
the 2000s on, was fostered by laws and public policies on housing and land tenure
regularization. To understand this scenario, the interpretation method adopted was the
historical-dialectical materialism according to the gender perspective proposed by the
Marxist feminist theoretical current. As for the research techniques employed,
qualitative and quantitative data were combined, obtained through the articulation of
bibliographic, documental, and statistical research and interviews conducted with
CODEM's former technician/advisor and employees, as well as with the women
beneficiaries of the Chão Legal and Terra da Gente programs, in order to identify
actions to promote priority assistance, host and of aid the women beneficiaries, and
guaranteeing not only the security of land tenure through the title deed, but also to
ensure the right to decent and adequate housing, with access to urban infrastructure
and public services, as an extension of the right to the city.
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