This paper discusses social housing policy in Brazil since the 1990s by analyzing government programs’ institutional arrangements, their sources of revenues and the formatting of related financial systems. The conclusion ...

This paper evaluates the effects of a housing program that built houses for low-income families from the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). We explore the lotteries used to select the program’s beneficiaries to provide ...

In 2003, the federal housing policy was launched in Argentina, marking a new era in housing policy in Latin America’s fourth most populous country. The Federal Housing Plan (FHP) sought to improve upon the complex scenario ...

Frei Montalva promoted the "Operacion Sitio" program and Villa La Reina by Fernando Castillo Velasco is an exemplary case of it. Given scarcity, the people got only what they could not obtain by themselves: urban design ...

This work aimed to incorporate an environmental viewpoint into the social housing discussion through the urban insertion analysis of the housing complexes produced by the PMCMV. Therefore, it sought to understand how the ...

The lack of geographical equality in the development of neoliberal social housing models is evidence of differing ideological discourses and socio-spatial practices in the production of social housing. Based on a critical ...

This paper presents a theoretical conceptual approach from one of the serious problem of the population in relation to housing deficit. It will approach the new focus given to the housing problem from the edition of the ...