Public facilities are fundamental to the reception of the low-income population, serving as an essential support to the maintenance of life and to the access to fundamental rights, in addition to being important components on a neighborhood spatial planning. They also serve as reference elements in the daily life of the residents. In Curitiba, Brazil, between the years of 2016 to 2019, we observed a series of actions from the mayor office that threatened to shut down or privatize health and social assistance facilities. The Curitiba Urban Conflicts Observatory catalogued these actions, observing movements from the population, the public prosecution agency, trade unions and professional councils against the public facilities scrapping. This article has as its main objective to make a spatial analysis of the facilities in relation to Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and Curitiba's Institute of Research and Urban Planning (IPPUC) indicators. Cross-referencing these data, it concluded that the enclosure of the public facilities, in addition to the abandonment of population they used to serve, reinforces the socio-spatial segregation brought up by the urban planning processes, exposing the myth around Curitiba as a “model city”.
