Urban land regularization has been one of the main themes of legislative construction and social
policies of the Brazilian State in precarious settlements, in response to the growth of this type
of housing space, which characterizes the country's urbanization. The regularization
experiences demonstrated a diversity of theoretical approaches to the problem, however, such
approaches treated little of the residents of the settlements. To highlight the perspective of these
inhabitants, we propose an approach to the discussion of the socio-spatial content, which
highlights the subjects' socio-spatial practices in the urban space, to the debates that involve
regularization. In this sense, we seek to identify possible contributions and the theoretical and
methodological limits of that debate to the topic of urban land regularization of social interest,
considering the guidelines, objectives and especially the results of the experience of the Chão
Legal Program in the municipality of Belém (PA), particularly in the Morada de Deus I and II
settlements. We adopted the qualitative research methodology, based on a bibliographic review
and based on documentary analysis and testimonies obtained in individual interviews, whose
focus was on the results of this social policy in the socio-spatial practices of the residents. With
that, we come to the understanding that the contributions refer to the questioning of the idea of
integrating precarious settlements into the city and to the emphasis on the ways in which
residents appropriate urban spaces as a criterion for assessing the regularization results; and the
limits refer to the incorporation of the theoretical principles of socio-spatial content to the
evaluation of regularization, which are still abstract and demand the development of research
techniques that clarify the relationship between the implications of regularization and changes
in socio-spatial practices
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