“…However, municipalities of classes A1, A2 and A3, only 3%, 14.1% and 20.5%, respectively, declared the existence of PMRR. An estimative of 88.41% of municipalities supported by federal resources are capitals or large municipalities, as one of the selection criteria is the greatest number of people beneficiated with the measures (Caixeta and Masiero, 2016). Besides, federal investments for informal settlements, from 2000 to 2010, have been effective for improving the urban infrastructure and were focused even so for the largest cities, to the detriment of the small and medium-sized cities (D'Ottaviano and Pasternak, 2015), despite the fact that in many of them the percentage of population in risk areas exceeds 40% of their total.…”