The my house my life program in the ABC region of metropolitan São Paulo. From crisis to opportunity for rethinking progressive urban reform in Brazil?
Loading...
Date
2016
Editors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
AESOP
Abstract
The setting of this paper is the rise and fall of what we will label as “progressive” developmental housing finance through the so-called My House My Life Program (MHML), which was launched by the Brazilian federal government as one of its flagship programs in 2009 in the midst of the international subprime crisis and became object of increasing criticism. Recent federal austerity measures have only increased uncertainties regarding the size and scope of the third phase of the program that was launched in September 2015.
After a brief description of the program’s anti-cyclical character and its overall design (subsidies and price ceilings structured around three target groups; the role of private developers in the two low-medium income segments (target group 2 and 3, respectively) and local governments in the third low-income segment – target group
1), we will provide a synthesis of the critical national research that has been undertaken on the program (Cardoso, 2013; Rolnik et. al., 2015; Ferreira, 2012). The latter has emphasized that MHML has been disconnected from the national low- income housing policy that had been discussed and approved earlier on. As such, the housing units that have been produced were mismatched with the objective of reducing the overall housing deficit and its regional distribution over the country (producing an excessive number of units in regions with a low housing deficit and vice versa). Moreover, evaluations have stressed the peripheral location of units, particularly in smaller cities, and the lack of architectural quality of projects.
Description
Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
Keywords
License
All rights reserved