La propiedad realmente existente

The article studies the land legal situation in six popular neighbourhoods in Quilmes town, in the Gran Buenos Aires, considering the complexities of the state processing of legal titles. Though the systematization of different qualitative surveys in those six neighbourhoods during nine years, it is sustained that regularization policies favour the circulation of documentation which recognizes the de facto possession of land without assimilating it to deeds. In this way, the state develops an intervention modality that displaces the boundaries between formal and informal, favouring multiple uses of this state recognized certifications. At the same time, the systematization of surveys showed changes that have occurred during the last years in regularization policies. The certificados de vivienda familiar seem to have acquired a considerable circulation, intersecting a national program in a provincial policy. However, the hybrid legal prospect, of de facto possession without deeds, persists, although with an increasing presence of public policy made documentation that certify possession.