THE CITY OF FORTALEZA AND HOUSING PROBLEM:

COLLECTIVE HOUSING (1980-2000).

Abstract

During the 1980s, the Center of Fortaleza experienced a new phenomenon in housing research. According to data from Fortaleza City Hall, there were 195 single-room houses, a nomenclature that fits collective housing (multi-family housing, which has rooms for common use among its residents). These types of housing were/are not a new fact in history, being present in Europe throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, and in other capitals of Brazil at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries. The occurrence of precarious collective housing highlights the housing problem in central spaces. The objective of this work is to reflect on the existence and home experiences in collective housing in the Center of Fortaleza and how they are inserted in a housing problem in which it is denied/ignored by the public authorities.