The housing peripheralization process financed by the Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the production of housing units promoted by the Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida-PMCMV in the Brasília Metropolitan Area. It seeks to investigate the role played by the State in the context of the PMCMV, and to analyze the spatial distribution of financial resources and housing units financed with Program funds between the years of 2009 and 2018. The research methodology was established in three stages. The first concerns bibliographic research, contributing to understanding the main characteristics of the PMCMV. The second stage dealt with documentary research, with an analysis of the database obtained from the Ministry of Regional Development, the coordinating institution of the PMCMV. The third and last stage was field research, where it was possible to register projects that corroborate the thesis of the advance of housing production toward the metropolitan periphery of Brasília. It was observed that the State was primarily the financier of the PMCMV through the financial system (public and private banks) and the management of the territory of the Federal District that is exercised under the influence of the state monopoly of urban land, together with the action of the private initiative, promoted the process of the peripheralization of the housing financed by the PMCMV, which, in the context of the Brasília Metropolitan Area, was prominent in the Goiás cities of the “Entorno” of the Federal District, to the detriment of the territory of the federal capital.

Keywords:
Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida; Housing policy; Brasília Metropolitan Area