Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida: externalidades no município de Volta Redonda, RJ

Abstract

This work aims at understanding how the external impacts of the Minha Casa Minha Vida (My Home My Life) are presented in an urban residential center in the city of Volta Redonda, RJ. In order to study these impacts, bibliographical and documentary survey were used as the base methodology, and also observations and interviews with the externally impacted actors, these being the original residents, the public service providers and the planners. Then, the data was examined through speech analysis. Public housing policies are an important subject to be debated in Brazil given the large shortage of residences that distresses mainly socially vulnerable families. Minha Casa Minha Vida was the largest public housing program in the country and aims at delivering decent domiciles. With the study, it was observed that decent housing goes beyond the delivery of the housing unit, but also includes a satisfactory public apparatus and issues of coexistence and acceptance of the new residents by older residents of the site.