Paraná court approves land transfer for Tiradentes community residents
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The judiciary in Paraná, Brazil, approved a land transfer to the state to facilitate the urban land regularization of the Tiradentes community.
This move follows a decade of legal negotiations regarding the permanence of families living in the Cidade Industrial de Curitiba. The state will now assume responsibility for the regularization process through its competent agencies. The community formed in 2015 with the help of the Movimento Popular por Moradia and currently houses about 420 families.
The land originally belonged to the bankrupt assets of Stirps Empreendimentos, which was sublet to Solvi Essencis S.A. to manage a nearby landfill. Although the companies issued eviction orders between 2015 and 2016, the orders were never carried out because the Ministério Público do Paraná, the Defensoria Pública, and the Instituto Democracia Popular intervened in the legal process. Residents began organizing the territory in 2017 by redesigning streets and delimiting lots.
In June 2022, Stirps Empreendimentos formally proposed to donate the occupied portion of the land to end the legal dispute. While the initial plan was to transfer the property directly to the Associação de Moradores Nova Tiradentes CIC, the Procuradoria-Geral do Paraná joined the process between 2024 and 2025 to manage the regularization. The community has maintained a formalized association since 2021 and runs local projects.
Women in the community organize school extracurricular activities for children, supported by partner entities and technical assistance from the Instituto Democracia Popular and the Plantear university extension collective.
