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Autogestão in an era of mass social housing: the case of Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida-Entidades Programme

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  • Kristine M. Stiphany
  • Peter M. Ward

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Although Brazilian housing policy has historically focused upon upgrading and regenerating informal settlements, (urbanização), since 2009 the prioritisation of mass housing has led to social exclusion and spatial segregation across the country's urban peripheries. Using a combined ethnographic and geospatial analysis, we provide a critical analysis of MCMVE (Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades), a community-based housing programme that alleges the use of autogestão - collective urban management organised around an ethos of social transformation. We find this claim to be misleading. Although MCMVE ostensibly increases access to housing, it is encouraging residents to leave established, well located settlements and relocate to isolated, peripheral tracts of land. Our study emphasises the need to reconsider how MCMVE might more productively assimilate autogestão and mass housing in the future.

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  • Kristine M. Stiphany & Peter M. Ward, 2019. "Autogestão in an era of mass social housing: the case of Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida-Entidades Programme," International Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 311-336, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:311-336
    DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1540739
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    1. Alejandra Reyes & Patricia Basile, 2022. "The Distinctive Evolution Of Housing Financialization In Brazil And Mexico," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(6), pages 933-953, November.
    2. Lauro Gonzalez & Fernanda Lima-Silva & Marlei Pozzebon, 2021. "Improving public housing policies that target low-income households: The value of adding proximity to discretion," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 39(7), pages 1567-1585, November.
    3. Morgana G Martins Krieger & Marlei Pozzebon & Lauro Gonzalez, 2021. "When social movements collaborate with the state towards the right to the city: Unveiling compromises and conflicts," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(5), pages 1115-1139, August.

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