Housing Improvements in the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program Articulation of Public and Private Actors And Civil Society In The Face Of An Urgent Challenge

The event is focused on the new housing policy being structured in Brazil, conceived to attend over 26.5 million homes owned by low-income population. The policy is focused on affordable financing to promote the improvement of inadequated buildings.

Alessandra d´Avila

Facilitator

November 6, 2024 | 17:00 - 18:30

Multipurpose room 07

Ministry of Cities of Brazil

Brazil

English, Portuguese

Reference:

NE 07-06

WUF12

Networking Events

Summary

In its new edition, the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program has moved beyond the classic model of producing new housing on a large scale, proposing other modalities such as social renting, retrofitting in central areas and housing improvements, in order to diversify and expand the range of solutions to meet Brazil's housing needs.

The Housing Improvement modality is intended to assist the lowest-income population and covers the so-called building inadequacy or qualitative deficit, in other words, housing that doesn't need to be replaced, but which requires interventions and renovations to guarantee the quality of the building and the way of living. Brazil's housing inadequacy affects around 26.5 million homes, with the building inadequacy component being a reality in 12.3 million homes, twice as many as the quantitative housing deficit.

Housing improvements as a solution stand out in terms of their social, environmental and economic sustainability, since they preserve families' urban and social connections, invo

Objectives

The Housing Improvement Modality, through affordable credit linked to specialized technical assistance seeks to ensure that the ability to pay for the basic needs of families is not compromised, but also that the works are carried out with technical and financially adequate assistance, avoiding waste of financial and material resources, as well as correct and safe execution.

The main objective of this networking event is to debate Housing Improvement as one of the strategies for addressing the population's housing needs, in order to improve the quality of health and life of a large portion of the population, preserve the environment, mitigate risks and guarantee adequate housing for all. This initiative is also a response to decades of housing policies that have focused only on the quantitative housing deficit in Brazil and after more than 50 years of being implemented in the region, have still not managed to solve the housing problem.