Analysis of the brazilian urban housing policy in the last decade

Abstract

This article describes the set up of the Brazilian urban housing policy in the last decade (from 2005 to 2015). To this end, one must place the scales of urban policy within the existing federative arrangement, against the backdrop of the debate on decentralization of the Brazilian State’s social public policies. Here, the political situation during the setting of the National System of Social Interest Housing (SNHIS) with its near-namesake Fund (FNHIS) through Federal Law 11124 of 2005 is recovered, moving the urban policy up to a new federative agreement. The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) and My Home, My Life (MCMV), which respectively start in 2007 and 2009, put an end to SNHIS and move the urban policy to a new level, with a massive allocation of funds which outdoes FNHIS and are cut off from the urban policy then being structured.