Urban Land-Squattings are intended to promote a revolutionary space for reordering cities through the struggle for housing. However there are certain limits imposed by the neoliberal project of city structure policy that aims to replicate a common place in the urban housing logic. Then this paper aims to analyze the challenges for the maintenance of Land-Squattings as resistance spaces facing neoliberal city structures, using the example of the Dandara Land-Squatting, an important occupied territory in Belo Horizonte-MG for more than 10 years. Therefore, the paper proposes a historical approach about Dandara, evaluating the expectations regarding its planning and recent transformations in its dynamics. Thus this work elaborates a critique on social forms and its recent interpretations. Therefore the paper aims to understand why popular territories that are organized by social movements loose their characteristics as spaces of “urban revolution”, embodying themselves to the neoliberal city’s logic. With this, we raise questions about the limits of occupation as a tactic from a critic assessment on this important experience.
