A política habitacional brasileira entre 2003 e 2010: rupturas e continuismos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Programa Municipal de Apoio ao Arrendamento - PMAA

A política de habitação no concelho de Matosinhos sofreu ao longo das últimas décadas profundas alterações. O trabalho apresentado analisa o processoi subjacente a uma nova política da autarquia no domínio da habitação, o Programa Municipal de Apoio ao Arrendamento. O interesse nesta temática surge como corolário de uma prática profissional na entidade empresarial municipal, organização que tem a seu cargo a intervenção neste domínio. O principal objetivo desta investigação é compreender de que forma o Programa Municipal de Apoio ao Arrendamento constitui uma resposta às novas configurações da questão habitacional no município e a implicação dos profissionais da área social, nomeadamente os assistentes sociais, na sua criação, implementação e avaliação. Por outro lado, pretendemos analisar os limites e possibilidades do trabalho dos assistentes sociais no Departamento de Gestão Social e Habitacional. A recolha de informação teve por base uma pesquisa bibliográfica, associada aos temas em análise e uma pesquisa documental, a qual incidiu sobre a documentação produzida na MatosinhosHabit, nomeadamente procedimentos, instruções de trabalho, processos de munícipes (de 1999 a 2013), sob a forma digital ou outra. A criação desta política surge como resposta aos problemas económicos e sociais sentidos pela população em meados de 2007 e para a qual os profissionais da área social tiveram um trabalho propositivo. Este trabalho passou pelo envolvimento ativo de vários profissionais da organização e de entidades parceiras locais, tendo subjacente os valores da equidade e desenvolvimento local e social. / The housing policy in the Municipality of Matosinhos has suffered profound changes over the past decades. The present assignment analises the underlying process to a new policy of the local authority in the field of housing, "O Programa Nacional de Apoio ao Arrendamento" (the Municipal Program for Support to Leasing). The interest in this subject arises as a corollary of a professional practice in the municipal business entity that is in charge of intervention in this area. The main objective of this research is to understand how the program for leasing is a response to the new housing issues in the municipality and the involvement of social workers, namely in their creation, implementation and evaluation. On the other hand, we intend to analise the limits and possibilities of the work of social workers in the Department of Social Management and Housing. The collecting of the data was based on a literature research, associated to topics in analysis and documental research, which focused on the documentation produced at MatosinhosHabit, namely procedures, work instructions, householder processes (from 1999 to 2013), under a digital format or any other format. The creation of this policy is a response to economic and social problems felt by the population in mid-2007, for which social workers had proposals. This work has involved the active participation of various professionals of the organization and local partner organizations, having underlying values of equity and social and local development.

A nova política de habitação de interesse social no Pará (2007-2010): avanços e limites

A presente dissertação realiza um reflexão acerca dos avanços e limites da nova Política de Habitação de Interesse Social no Pará, no período de 2007 a 2010, identificando os principais obstáculos que se apresentam para sua implementação neste Estado, considerando especificamente a atuação dos diversos níveis do Poder Público. Entende-se que a instituição do Sistema Nacional da Habitação de Interesse Social pode ser considerada um avanço para a política nacional, resultado da trajetória e do acúmulo dos movimentos ligados à discussão da Reforma Urbana no país, apresentando um novo arranjo institucional, baseado no fortalecimento da pactuação federativa e maior participação e controle social, em que se verifica ainda maior aporte de recursos federais e ampliação da atuação do Governo Estadual. Nesse sentido, o trabalho analisa mais particularmente as estratégias de descentralização adotadas pela recente política, bem como os resultados alcançados principalmente pelas administrações municipais paraenses, no tocante ao acesso aos recursos federais e execução de ações neste setor. A pesquisa bibliográfica aborda a questão habitacional e urbana, Estado e políticas sociais, descentralização de políticas sociais, política habitacional no Brasil e no Pará e urbanização na Amazônia, com foco no Pará. Foram ainda realizadas pesquisa documental e entrevistas com representantes do Governo Federal, Estadual e Municipais, bem como representantes de movimentos sociais e populares. Os resultados apontam que, para além dos avanços na estruturação de um sistema nacional e da conquista de importantes espaços de participação no nível federal, as estratégias de descentralização ainda se apresentam de maneira frágil, o que pode representar um limite ao processo de consolidação do SNHIS.

Profits and votes: Entrepreneurs and the government in Brazilian housing policy

ABSTRACTAfter more than twenty years of low housing construction output, the housing policy recovered its momentum in the country with the ascent of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party, PT) to the seat of the federal government. This article demonstrates - through the analysis of documents, interviews and research conducted with businessmen - that the impetus of such a state policy is a part of the PT electoral strategy, which is based on economic growth and the expansion of social programs. The research analyses the dovetailing of interests between the Lula (the Brazilian President from 2003 to 2010) administration and the civil construction business - the latter concerned with expanding its business, and the former with increasing the supply of jobs and the level of economic activity. This process culminated in the launching of the largest social housing program to be implemented in the country. Minha Casa, Minha Vida (My House, My Life), is a project in whose planning building companies played a key role, performing feasibility studies and carrying out social housing projects.

Happiness, well-being and housing policy

The literature on the meaning of home emphasises the security, positive meaning and self-esteem that home generates. However, housing policy has traditionally viewed houses as units of accommodation rather than homes. This article tackles the question of whether it is possible to devise a housing policy that aims at improving the self-esteem and positive identity of residents. The article reviews the growing literature stressing the importance of seeking to promote happiness or well-being as the primary objective of government policy and concludes with an evaluation of the potential for the application of these ideas to housing policy.

Housing or property? The dynamics of housing policy and property principles in the right to buy

This paper examines the interplay and tension between housing law and policy and property law, in the specific context of the right to buy (RTB). It focuses on funding arrangements between the RTB tenant and another party. It first examines how courts determine the parties' respective entitlements in the home, highlighting the difficulty of categorising, under traditional property law principles, a contribution in the form of the statutory discount conferred on the RTB tenant. Secondly, it considers possible exploitation of the RTB scheme, both at the macro level of exploitation of the policy underpinning the legislation and, at the micro level, of exploitation of the tenant. The measures contained in the Housing Act 2004 intended to curb exploitation of the RTB are analysed to determine what can be considered to be legitimate and illegitimate uses of the scheme. It is argued that, despite the government's implicit approval, certain funding arrangements by non-resident relatives fail to give effect to the spirit of the scheme.

The trajectory of social housing policy in Brazil: From the National Housing Bank to the Ministry of the Cities

This paper discusses social housing policy in Brazil since the 1990s by analyzing government programs’ institutional arrangements, their sources of revenues and the formatting of related financial systems. The conclusion suggests that all these arrangements have not constituted a comprehensive housing policy with the clear aim of serving to enhance housing conditions in the country. Housing ‘policies’ since the 1990s – as proposed by Fernando Collor de Mello, Itamar Franco, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and ´ Luis Inacio Lula da Silva’s governments (in the latter case, despite much progress towards subsidized investment programs) – have sought to consolidate financial instruments in line with global markets, restructuring the way private interests operate within the system, a necessary however incomplete course of action. Different from rhetoric, this has resulted in failure as the more fundamental social results for the poor have not yet been achieved.

The Alliance for Progress and Housing Policy in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires in the 1960s

This article explores the construction of publicly financed low-income housing complexes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 1960s. These housing developments were possible thanks to the arrival of foreign economic and technical assistance from the Alliance for Progress. Urban scholars, politicians, diplomats and urbanists of the Americas sought to promote middle-class habits, mass consumption and moderate political behaviour, especially among the poor, by expanding access to homeownership and ‘decent’ living conditions for a burgeoning urban population. As a result, the history of low-income housing should be understood within broader transnational discourses and practices about the ‘modernization’ and ‘development’ of the urban poor.

Field hearings : future of the housing industry and federal housing policy : hearings before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first and second sessions, October 10, 1981, (San Antonio, Tex.) and January 7, 1982 (San Francisco, Calif.).

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The trajectory of social housing policy in Brazil: From the National Housing Bank to the Ministry of the Cities

This paper discusses social housing policy in Brazil since the 1990s by analyzing government programs’ institutional arrangements, their sources of revenues and the formatting of related financial systems. The conclusion suggests that all these arrangements have not constituted a comprehensive housing policy with the clear aim of serving to enhance housing conditions in the country. Housing ‘policies’ since the 1990s – as proposed by Fernando Collor de Mello, Itamar Franco, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and ´ Luis Inacio Lula da Silva’s governments (in the latter case, despite much progress towards subsidized investment programs) – have sought to consolidate financial instruments in line with global markets, restructuring the way private interests operate within the system, a necessary however incomplete course of action. Different from rhetoric, this has resulted in failure as the more fundamental social results for the poor have not yet been achieved.

The trajectory of social housing policy in Brazil: From the National Housing Bank to the Ministry of the Cities

This paper discusses social housing policy in Brazil since the 1990s by analyzing government programs’ institutional arrangements, their sources of revenues and the formatting of related financial systems. The conclusion suggests that all these arrangements have not constituted a comprehensive housing policy with the clear aim of serving to enhance housing conditions in the country. Housing ‘policies’ since the 1990s – as proposed by Fernando Collor de Mello, Itamar Franco, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and ´ Luis Inacio Lula da Silva’s governments (in the latter case, despite much progress towards subsidized investment programs) – have sought to consolidate financial instruments in line with global markets, restructuring the way private interests operate within the system, a necessary however incomplete course of action. Different from rhetoric, this has resulted in failure as the more fundamental social results for the poor have not yet been achieved.

Quem tem direito à moradia? :uma análise da política nacional de habitação e dos programas de habitação de interesse social (2003-2005)

This dissertation analyses the Brazilian housing policy of today s, focusing on the programmes in the socalled Social Interest Housing Subsystem in order to discuss to what extent the government has been able to grant housing constitutional rights in the country. The discussion is about housing policy and the principles in the country s Constitution regarding the role of housing as a social right, a right that must be granted by the state. This refers to land rent theory to understand the relationship between capital and property and the reasons why, under capitalism, housing becomes a commodity in the market. Then, it discusses the national housing policy, which emphasizes land ownership through financing, that is, via market, a process that excludes all low income population. In the conclusion, it is clear that, although government programmes cover extensively at least potentially the national territory as well as social group, subsidized housing programmes cannot be implemented in the city due to land prices because subsidy is too low. In this way, the law that grants housing rights to all Brazilian citizens is violated

Política habitacional em zonas urbanas: o caso do conjunto habitacional Vila da Barca, em Belém

o presente estudo é o resultado da pesquisa feita durante o Mestrado em Gestão Empresarial da Escola de Administração Pública e de Empresas, da Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Este trabalho buscou compreender a produção espacial da cidade de Belém, precisamente sobre a Vila da Barca, situada às margens da Baia do Guajará, região que teve alguns de seus moradores remanejados para o Projeto de Habitação e Urbanização do local como parte da política pública habitacional da área, realizada pelo Governo Municipal em parceria com o Governo Federal. Este projeto habitacional é gerenciado pela Secretaria Municipal de Habitação - SEHAB. O objetivo principal deste estudo voltou-se para a avaliação do Projeto de Habitação da Vila da Barca no sentido de identificar como se efetivou o processo de concepção, remanejamento e reinstalação das famílias do setor analisado. Além disso, buscou-se conhecer o que foi feito em relação ao desenvolvimento desse espaço urbano. A metodologia se desenvolveu em duas fases: aplicação de questionários aos moradores e, de entrevistas aos técnicos envolvidos (Gerente de Desenvolvimento Urbano (GIDUR); Técnico Social e Engenheiro, funcionários da Caixa Econômica Federal em Belém). A pesquisa procurou demonstrar a opinião dos envolvidos no processo de efetivação dessa política pública, compreender a produção desse espaço urbano em suas diferentes dimensões e perceber os aspectos positivos e negativos do projeto, verificando alguns elementos de construção desse espaço. Como conclusão, percebe-se que é preciso construir formas atuais eficazes de exercer por parte da sociedade o controle social sobre o poder do Estado e sobre os mecanismos que controlam o mercado. Esse é o desafio maior da contemporaneidade