IEME Brasil started a new contract with the São Paulo Municipal Housing Secretariat (SEHAB) to provide specialized services in the area of urban development. It is worth remembering that the previous work with SEHAB extended from 2012 to 2019 and benefited 82,056 families.

In that project, IEME was a pioneer in carrying out the registration of families using the municipal system Habisp and HabitaSampa. The work was carried out in all regions of the city of São Paulo and with different types of housing (slums, irregular subdivisions, housing complexes, tenements, etc.). In the final line of the process, after thousands of individual analyses, there was the delivery of property titles to eligible families that irregularly inhabited the mapped places.

The work involved architects, in the survey of each house (state, area, finishes, etc.), social workers, who collected documents and registered the families (number of residents in each unit, income, children and school attendance), and lawyers, who carried out the screening and analysis to categorize the situations encountered. With this information in hand, the city hall assigned property titles to those who were able to do so.

Before land regularization, families were afraid that someone would invade the house, because they did not have a property title. “Once they receive the title, everything changes. Life becomes more peaceful and they even invest in the conservation of the property. It is very exciting to see that, in some way, we are contributing to improving people’s quality of life”, says Liana Becocci, director of IEME Brasil.