The study demonstrates that allocating vacant properties and mpty lots in the central area of São Paulo (Brazil) for low-income housing can contribute to strategies for climate mitigation and adaptation, in addition to fulfilling the social function of property, a principle set out in the 1988 Federal Constitution to guide urban development policy. It would have been possible to create more than 202.000 housing units between 2002 and 2022, mitigating 4.4 million tons of CO2e. Download the folder english version here.