Abstract
ABSTRACTAfter more than twenty years of low housing construction output, the housing policy recovered its momentum in the country with the ascent of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party, PT) to the seat of the federal government. This article demonstrates - through the analysis of documents, interviews and research conducted with businessmen - that the impetus of such a state policy is a part of the PT electoral strategy, which is based on economic growth and the expansion of social programs. The research analyses the dovetailing of interests between the Lula (the Brazilian President from 2003 to 2010) administration and the civil construction business - the latter concerned with expanding its business, and the former with increasing the supply of jobs and the level of economic activity. This process culminated in the launching of the largest social housing program to be implemented in the country. Minha Casa, Minha Vida (My House, My Life), is a project in whose planning building companies played a key role, performing feasibility studies and carrying out social housing projects.
Highlights
The close relationship of business sectors with the federal administration of the Workers Party (PT) no longer comes as any surprise to the observers of Brazilian politics
This article is about the relations during the course of the Lula administration with construction business and their repercussion on housing policy
Several analyses have pointed to the central role of construction companies in the federal government’s principal housing program, My House, My Life (PMCMV)
Summary
Resumo: A política habitacional retomou seu relevo no país com a ascensão do PT ao governo federal, após mais de 20 anos de baixa produção de moradias. The research analyses the dovetailing of interests between the Lula (the Brazilian President from 2003 to 2010) administration and the civil construction business – the latter concerned with expanding its business, and the former with increasing the supply of jobs and the level of economic activity. This process culminated in the launching of the largest social housing program to be implemented in the country.
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