Questão Habitacional e Serviço Social: aproximação ao debate

This article discusses the process of capitalist urbanization in peripheral countries, such as Brazil, its peculiarities and contradictions. In addition, the configuration of the housing issue is presented as one of the expressions of the social issue, object of intervention by Social Work, relating it to the debate about the right to the city and to housing nowadays. The main conclusion of the the paper is that the critical debate on the use and occupation of urban land and the social function of property is fundamental to subsidize concrete actions aiming at legitimizing and make the rights to the city and to housing.