Bottlenecks for housing provision in small towns: analysis of the program Minha Casa, Minha Vida (“My House,My Life”)

AbstractThe paper aims to assess the adhesion to the public housing policy in small towns. Thus, the article is divided into two subsections. At first, it seeks to scale the guidelines and the housing needs identified by the National Housing Plan (PLANHAB) compared to the Minha Casa, Minha Vida (“My House, My Life”) (PMCMV) in small towns; and second, we seek to identify obstacles in operationalizing the Minha Casa, Minha Vida (“My House, My Life”) – modality Public Offering Resources for municipalities with up to 50 thousand inhabitants, for example, the disruption of public selections, the stoppage of resources in modality public offering and the new rules of the Minha Casa, Minha Vida (“My House, My Life”) – Lease Fund Residential (FAR) which enabled the insertion of municipalities with population of up to 50 thousand inhabitants to access new sources of housing resources. The reflections were developed considering national literature review dealing with the National Housing Policy and its implementation considering expressed in the National Housing Plan (PlanHab) guidelines and part of its operation with the launch of the Minha Casa, Minha Vida (“My House, My Life”) (PMCMV ). Also, we proceeded to an analysis of the signings of the Minha Casa, Minha Vida (“My House, My Life”) –. Public Resources Offer – based on volume of selections hires from 2009 and 2012. The analysis indicates significant bottlenecks to meet the housing needs in small towns as well as the difficulty of this class of municipalities to meet the requirements for obtaining federal resources, not always compliant to their technical and institutional capacity. At the same time, the analysis indicates resource establishment bottlenecks in the urban management by the local government.