HOUSING During the workshop, Taubman College Team students heard from housing experts in the City of São Paulo, Brazil. The first speaker related to housing was Mário Reali. From 2009-2012 he served as mayor for the city of Diadema, which is located in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area. He is currently a public servant for the City of São Paulo and serves as a mentor and champion of the new housing plan. He explained the history of municipal and federal housing policies in Brazil. First, he discussed the 1988 Federal Constitution. This Constitution introduced multiple changes, such as conceptualizing social function of urban land and introducing the right to a healthy environment. As a result, the City Statute, a federal law passed in 2001, served as the enabling legislation to implement the urban planning tools relevant to social housing.
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natural population growth and new household formation is estimated at 27 million units, including the need to urbanize thousands of favelas where 15 million people live. In Brazil, 85% of the deficit is in cities and 85-90% of it is related to families with an income equal to or less than three minimum wages (the minimum wage was R$510 [$275 USD] in 2011). Given the reality of informal settlements, the government commenced Programa de Alceleração do Crescimento (Growth Acceleration Program) (PAC) in 2007. PAC has a slum-upgrading scheme for Brazil and the São Paulo Metropolitan Area to improve public and private investments in large-scale infrastructure projects. Municipalities or states are direct users of the funds, which they use to apply for work procurement and project execution, usually through bidding processes.
The National Housing Plan, or PlanHab, projected that there would be a demand of 35 million housing units between 2008 and 2023. The future demand generated by
As a response to the housing deficit and inequity, Brazil established a new social housing program, “My House, My Life.” This programed aims to create jobs in the construction sector in an effort to combat the 2008 global financial crisis. It also increases the housing stock for
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