ABSTRACT
In this chapter we analyze the production of social housing (habitação de interesse social [HIS]) by public authorities over the recent period in the SPMR. Given the competitive nature of the division of institutional responsibilities in the provision of housing policies in Brazil, this production includes policies at three government levels: municipal, undertaken by the São Paulo Popular Housing Company (Companhia de Habitação Popular São Paulo [COHAB]); state, implemented by the Urban Housing Development Company (Companhia de Desenvolvimento Habitacional Urbano [CDHU]); and federal, principally those implemented by the My House My Life Program (Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida [MCMV] Program). Since the creation of the federal program in 2008 and 2009, however, the first two agencies have practically ceased developing policies for producing their own housing units, concentrating instead on favela urbanization and the reform of housing projects built over the last decades. In fact, over the last five years, MCMV Program has produced close to 130,000 housing units, 1 while CDHU produced less than 12,000 housing units, some of them in association with the federal program itself. On the other hand, the new agency created by the São Paulo state government—Casa Paulista—is too recent to have produced significant effects on new social housing projects in the region up to the date studied. 2 For this reason, the present chapter focuses its attention on the production of the MCMV Program, including construction projects contracted up to June 2014.
