Urban Reform and the Common Good: a bill for the regularization of land tenure in favelas during the early 1960s

This article addresses the elaboration of a precursor Bill for Land Tenure Regularization in favelas that was presented to the Belo Horizonte City Council in July 1963 by Dimas Perrin, then a lawyer for the Federation of Favelado Workers of Belo Horizonte (FTFBH). It demonstrates that this bill was part of a complex plot surrounding the struggle for access to urban land. On the one hand, it was based on the national debate on Urban Reform and the investigation of alternatives for popular housing; on the other, it was supported by strong actions of Catholic Action (AC) and Popular Action (AP) in the favelas of the capital of Minas Gerais and the FTFBH.