A ampliação do mercado da moradia e a expansão do espaço metropolitano periférico: um estudo sobre a produção de moradia para o "segmento econômico" em Juatuba/MG

Abstract

This study aims to understand how recent changes in Brazilian housing policy especially the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program contributes to the expansion of the peripheral metropolitan area over less related to metropolitan process cities, thru dwelling production by the property market for economic sector. This sector embraces families with 10 or less than 10 minimum salaries as income. These families managed to take part in property market since last decade. Until then, the construction of illegal and informal dwelling was presented as one of the few viable alternatives for families that belong to lower income strata of the population. The problems related to housing or access to housing and the city constituted and worsened over the urbanization process in Brazil. The peripheral metropolitan area is characterized by irregular, insecure and substandard conditions. Since the late 1990s a sequence of public housing programs has been undertaken. Most of these actions contributed to the inclusion of families with income less than or equal to 10 minimum salaries in the formal/legal residence, by increasing the mortgage and the easing of financing conditions. Probably the recent enlargement of property market leads to metropolitan periphery spread over cities less compromised with metropolitan process. That is the main hypothesis of this work. Willing to discuss it, the metropolitan city of Juatuba was chosen as a case study. According to the information weve got during the research it is reasonable to affirm that the access to housing in this case and, therefore, to the city itself is not treated as a right, but as a privilege.