IEME Brasil advised the municipality, together with the State Government, to facilitate the processes

The municipality of Paraibuna (SP) celebrated its 357th birthday, on June 13, 2023, with a gift for the residents of the Chororão neighborhood. During the 26th edition of the traditional Feitur (José Benedicto Vilhena Tourism Fair), the mayor of the São Paulo tourist resort, Victor Miranda, and the executive secretary for Urban Development and Housing of the Government of the State of São Paulo, Eli Corrêa Filho, accompanied of state deputies and councilors, took the opportunity to hand over 44 property deeds to residents benefiting from the Cidade Legal Program.

Cidade Legal is the State Land Regularization Program, created in 2007 by the São Paulo government and managed by the Urban Development and Housing Secretariat to assist municipalities in the regularization of housing nuclei. Based on an agreement signed with the city hall, the program makes possible, through its team and contracted companies, the works of the Reurb-S Process, such as: inspection, diagnosis, topographical survey, regularization plan and social registration, elaboration of urban design and descriptive memorials of the defined subdivisions, to then file with the Real Estate Registry Office, enabling the registration.

In Paraibuna, specifically, the Secretariat had the technical support of IEME Brasil, which was represented at the ceremony by Daniela Massano, coordinator of the Urban Development area, and lawyer Gustavo Tufi Salim.

Fight history

“Chororão had particularities, because it bordered the road of the DER (Department of Highways). We also needed approval from DAEE (Department of Water and Electricity) and Cesp (Energy Company of São Paulo). In other words, a lot of work, which depended on other people”, recalled the mayor. Marcos Roberto de Moraes, a resident of the Chororão neighborhood for 36 years, said that the insecurity was very high. “We couldn’t make a renovation, an investment in the house. Today, we have no more worries.”

The deputy mayor himself, José Machado de Araújo Filho (Dr. Machado), is a resident of the Chororão neighborhood and also received the land regularization document. He did a quick review of the neighborhood’s history and past years. “In 2021, we received an order that we should vacate the area within 15 days. This caused a huge uproar throughout the neighborhood. Today, we come to this title deed. In this document, information is released that we are holders of a real property right, we are the legitimate owners”, he said.

Read more about the topic on the Paraibuna City Hall website