A group of government ministers Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) will land this Thursday (15) in São Paulo to deal with the impasses involving the removal of hundreds of families from Favela do Moinho, in the center of São Paulo.
The meeting will involve management secretaries Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) And it happens in the midst of the impasse between the São Paulo government and the Union Heritage Superintendence (SPU) about the eviction of the community.
The visit must have representatives of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic (Interlocutor of Social Movements), the Ministries of Management and Innovation, the cities, the Secretariat of Social Communication (Secom) and the Ministry of Cities.
The agenda is divided into two simultaneous meetings.
While the Minister of Cities, Jader Filho, should attend a meeting at the Bandeirantes Palace with the State Secretary of Urban Development and Housing, Marcelo Branco, representatives of the Federal Committee – including the National Secretary of Housing, Augusto Henrique Alves Rabelo, and technicians of the Ministry of Management – will pay a visit to the mill.
The team that will go to the mill will report the situation, in real time, to those attending the meeting at the headquarters of the São Paulo government. A press conference is planned after the meeting at the Bandeirantes Palace.
. CDHU (Housing and Urban Development Company) of the São Paulo government is demolishing vacant houses in the area, which belongs to the Union.
Protests of residents contrary to the vacancy took place on Wednesday (14).
The operation to remove the families from the mill involve months of discussions between the state and municipal governments and social movements.
On Tuesday (13), a letter from the Union’s Secretariat of Patrimony (SPU), It indicated the federal government’s endorsement of the “decharacterization” of housing, many of them precarious, of families who were adhered to “voluntarily” to the program of local management.
On the night of the same Tuesday, however, a note from the Ministry of Management suspended the assignment of the land where the Moinho favela is located, on the grounds that the Lula government “does not compact any use of police force against the population.”
According to the State Government, most families accepted the proposal to move to housing units outside the community.
The Housing Secretariat states that the site records a high incidence of tuberculosis, scorpion infestation, fire risk and support for drug trafficking in Cracolândia.
The Ministries of Cities and Management have been dialogue with the SP Housing Secretariat to expand the offer of housing.
The measure caused discomfort in state and municipal governments in the face of the complexity of the removal process, the months of negotiation and the safety risks involving the withdrawal – authorities even point to threats from criminals against families who accept to leave the site to live in other regularized areas.
Sources told CNN On Wednesday (14) that representatives of the Lula government tried early to open new negotiating channels with the Tarcisio management to circumvent the political tension involving the Moinho favela. The meeting this Thursday (15) is another stage in this regard, according to the government.
