Let's take as an example the social housing movements, which, through the occupation of empty properties, denounce the need to fulfill the social function of property, considered in the Federal Constitution and seek to guarantee one of the fundamental rights of human beings, the right to housing. However, these movements are constantly persecuted and criminalized, including by the media. And in legal disputes, it is common that the right to private property prevails at the expense of the right to decent housing, to fulfill the social function of property, or to attend to the guidelines legislated in the Estatuto da Cidade. Eviction actions on occupied properties are recurrent, including with the use of violence, implemented by the State itself, most of which are endorsed by public opinion, which is unaware of the aforementioned rights and laws. The concentration of goods and benefactors continues to be the rule in a country where dominant groups hold the places of power, in governments at all scales, in control of the means of production, and in control of the mass media.

Data Talks #5 speakers reinforce the importance of having access to public data so that there is social monitoring over the implementation of laws and public investments. So that it is possible to monitor and report possible situations of corruption, but also to demand rights and services. There is no disagreement with this point. It is also necessary not only to permit access to these data and information, but also that they are intelligible and translated to the population not specialized in a given subject. It is also necessary that there is availability and possibilities for the population to have access to this same information. If we need to fight for processes of transparency and access to information so that social monitoring over the implementation of public resources and services is effective, we need even more and unanimously to guarantee access to the right to live with dignity, to food and drink, to health, decent housing, the city, education, culture, for all people in the same way, without exception. It is also suggested that access to public data be accompanied by their translation, allowing the establishment of dialogues with all audiences, regardless of their condition, especially those who have historically been most disadvantaged.

In this sense, the actions of organized social movements, which promote internal political formation for poor and vulnerable families, stand out. With regard to knowledge about urban and housing issues, we find some social movements promoting specific training on access to public programs, legislation, or the construction of targeted demands, which strengthens the struggles for the right to decent housing and the city. Some of these trainings are carried out by specialist technicians, members or external to the movement. There are also popular technical advisors (assessorias técnicas populares), groups of technicians (from architecture and urbanism, but also from other disciplines), organized in associations or other non-profit formats, which maintain proximity to social movements, and have participated not only in training, but also in concrete actions for the construction of fairer cities.
In the city of São Paulo, there are several groups that work in technical assistance, more or less formalized. Usina CTAH , Peabiru TCA , and Ambiente Arquitetura are three of the oldest technical advisors groups in the city whose repertoire includes the development of projects and works for housing production, slum upgrading processes and urban improvements. There are also technical advisors created within the social movements themselves, such as FIO Assessoria Técnica Popular , a young group created within the MSTC - Movimento Sem-Teto do Centro, where exchange and dialogue between the community and technicians is already favored. These actions are crossed by internal and external training processes, contributing to the training of socially responsible professionals, but also to the translation of data and specialized information that was previously discussed. It should be noted that these dialogues and information translations are truly exchanges and work both ways. It is often the residents of popular communities and movement leaders who translate information, whether from official data or real life, so that the technicians can use them in the development of their work.

In the current political scenario, of loss of social rights, the recent actions of technical advisors have gone through resistance actions, for example in the case of eviction threats. Technical advisors have developed reports, counter-reports and popular plans to support the struggle for communities' permanence, and claim public interventions aimed at their real demands. In addition, the performance of technical advisors also crosses participation in official and institutionalized spaces of dispute and political articulation, such as the Municipal Housing Council of São Paulo, contributing to the struggle for the approval of laws, programs and investments that guarantee the decent housing and the right to the city for all people.

Despite the recent growth of interest in this form of work by professionals in architecture and urbanism in the country, it is far from unanimous. In some universities they actually are absent. The budgetary and programmatic conditions for the ATHIS Law to be implemented and accessed without exception are not yet guaranteed. And we are still far from the unanimous perception that the Right to Decent Housing, Land and the City must be universally guaranteed in Brazil and in the rest of the world.
For equality and against corruption, the road is long. It takes not only the transparency, accessibility and intelligibility of information, but also the dispute of powers, at all scales, dimensions and spaces.