Gendering the housing indebtedness research: initial challenges

Abstract

This research intends to reflect on the presence of indebtedness in urban daily life. With a focus on housing indebtedness, it reveals a path of research followed, from research for the metropolis of São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. It has as one of its main purposes to face the lack of data and the silencing of debate about the presence of real estate indebtedness and the consequent silenced expulsion. As a challenge, it aims to embody its studies, with a central focus on the intersection of gender and social class data. It has an analytical cut in the Real Estate Auction Notice of Caixa Econômica Federal, reflecting and revealing a Geography of Debt. Besides that, it takes the initial steps to critically discuss the weight of debt and the home for women in a context of precariousness, asymmetry of remuneration and hierarchical significance between productive and reproductive work.

Keywords:
Indebtedness; Metropolis; Rio de Janeiro; Housing; Gender