Habitação de Interesse Social como política pública e implementação do Programa ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’ em cidades médias, o caso de Erechim, RS, Brasil

Abstract

This paper presents a brief contextualization of the recurrent Public Policies in Brazil, adopted as a guarantee of access to housing, as a right guaranteed by the Federal Constitution of 1988. The analysis is also made of how these Public Policies were reflected in the Municipality of Erechim, and it is evaluated how the City Hall, responsible for planning the land uses and manager of Public Policies, according to the City Statute of 2001, has acted in the regulation of these policies. The study was performed through non-systematic interviews with the technical staff of the Department of Housing and it was verified that the model adopted in the municipality is limited, due to the great complexity of the problem and the emerging demand. This study concludes that other measures could be taken concurrently, such as the mechanisms provided for in the City Statute to remedy the deficit for medium-sized cities, and in fact contributing to a housing policy and a more sustainable development.

Urban Planning and Residential Segregation in Brazil—The Failure of the “Special Zone of Social Interest” Instrument in Londrina City (PR)

“…"According to [6], the distinction between the production of social housing (promoted by the State) and that one aimed at market housing has blurred, forming a hybrid intermediate zone-social market housing" [6] (p. 120). As pointed by [83]: An important observation is that Band I, which has more demand, is generally not met, since the partnership between residents, city hall and construction companies is not always consolidated, mainly due to the "disinterest of the construction companies that reported that the profit is lower than that of those served in Band II" [6] (p. 117).…”

“…It ends up creating more segregated areas in the city, often without the minimum conditions of urbanity. In many cases the areas were not served by public transport, without any kind of service nearby, such as UBS (basic health unit), day care centers, schools, among others, such as post offices, which often do not provide services in these areas" [83] (p. 117), a position that is shared with other authors [77,[84][85][86].…”