Continuities and Changes in the Diversification of Public Housing

Abstract

This chapter analyses the general profile of housing policy in S–o Paulo between 1989 and 2016, highlighting the continuities and changes over the period. Public housing policies play a central role in countries like Brazil, where the income of most of the population does not allow them to access market solutions. Housing policies should include more traditional policies of housing production, and several types of programs to diminish precarity, to create infrastructure, to reduce the housing costs for the poor, to provide social rent, among others. Brazilian housing policies consolidated through time three degrees of intervention in favelas: risk prevention, improvements, and slum upgrading. A significant diversification of programs occurred over the period, ranging from the classic promotion of new units built by construction firms for financed sale to the gradual emergence of more diverse forms of combating precarious housing conditions. The chapter summarizes continuities and transformations observed in the trajectories of policies and programs.

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