Direito à moradia, políticas públicas em habitação e o enfrentamento do déficit habitacional: os desafios do Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida

Abstract

This dissertation aims at the analysis of the Programme My Home, My Life in order to verify if the same could be applied in municipalities with different characteristics, becoming a useful tool for these federal entities, fighting the urban housing deficit. Initially, it developed an approach to housing and the recognized right to this, which has residence in the ideas of fundamental rights and human rights, seeking to define its use as an instrument to achieve a status of human dignity. The issue of housing deficit, long-standing as object of public policies in housing in the country, is also addressed, through collating-if the theory of the right to housing with the reality of that deficit, using as example the history of Rio de Janeiro and endeavouring to address why the difficulty in resolving the issue of housing for the low-income population, addressing also the nature of the estate and the influence of the real estate sector. Continue with the approach of the programme on technical and theoretical bases, down after some analysis of its legislation, without forgetting legislative and programmatic bases that the predecessors and related to it. The work concludes with three case studies in Silva Jardim, Petrópolis and Rio de Janeiro, where, by the data collected, it turns out that not all get satisfaction to implement the programme in its territory, particularly for the lower income, as well as the program does not cease to suffer the influence of the real estate sector, this influence that may end up determining where the city will grow. Also notes that the effective action of the municipal public power is essential for the program to become a useful instrument in the territory of the city