Casa Florescer: complexo de acolhimento e empoderamento para mulheres no bairro Benedito Bentes

Abstract

The difficulties found by the people living on the streets are adversarial, and increase when it is observed that in Brazil, existing public policies to mitigate or resolve such issues are not fulfilled effectively. Within this context, cis and trans women generally face more difficulties both in staying and leaving the streets, as they are prone to obstacles imposed by violence, insecurity and difficulties in finding work, in addition to being held responsible for the care of more vulnerable people, such as children and the elderly. At the same time, the neighborhood of Benedito Bentes, the largest peripheral neighborhood in Maceió-AL and which, formed at the end of the 1980s from the socio-spatial segregation of the city's poorest population, suffers to this day from the problems brought about by this separation, which makes its infrastructure precarious and inefficient. Faced with the need to reduce the housing deficit in the capital of Alagoas – aggravated by the environmental catastrophe caused by the destruction of Rock Salt by the mining company Braskem – and the consequent needs for quality housing in peripheral neighborhoods, combined with the needs for quality housing in the target audience, the aforementioned neighborhood was chosen as the location for implementing the project, in order to generate greater socioeconomic impacts for both. Based on the questions presented, the current work aims to propose a Welcoming Complex linking a housing space aimed at homeless/socially vulnerable women and their dependents, to a space for various activities for the general community of the neighborhood. The intention is to contribute to the formation of attributes that facilitate the insertion of the target audience, both in the job market and in quality housing, therefore generating autonomy and empowerment for them, as well as bringing an increase in the quality of public spaces in the region and consequent improvement in the quality of life of the local population.