Abstract
Brazil has experienced significant changes in recent decades in the field of urban and housing policy. The institutional context created signaled a promising perspective to articulate the land issue to housing policy. Although there is a consensus that urban land is component and an essential condition for the success of the actions that concretize such a policy, housing practices undertaken rarely deal with this component in the proper way. This paper examine how the land issue is inserted in the design of national housing policies. The work analyzes the approach of land issue in National Housing Policy, its purposes and the contradictions generated to match its role with the acceleration of economic growth.
land policy; national housing policy; Program Minha Casa Minha Vida