TY - JOUR
T1 - Autogestão in an era of mass social housing
T2 - the case of Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida-Entidades Programme
AU - Stiphany, Kristine M.
AU - Ward, Peter M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Although Brazilian housing policy has historically focused upon upgrading and regenerating informal settlements, (urbanização), since 2009 the prioritisation of mass housing has led to social exclusion and spatial segregation across the country's urban peripheries. Using a combined ethnographic and geospatial analysis, we provide a critical analysis of MCMVE (Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades), a community-based housing programme that alleges the use of autogestão - collective urban management organised around an ethos of social transformation. We find this claim to be misleading. Although MCMVE ostensibly increases access to housing, it is encouraging residents to leave established, well located settlements and relocate to isolated, peripheral tracts of land. Our study emphasises the need to reconsider how MCMVE might more productively assimilate autogestão and mass housing in the future.
AB - Although Brazilian housing policy has historically focused upon upgrading and regenerating informal settlements, (urbanização), since 2009 the prioritisation of mass housing has led to social exclusion and spatial segregation across the country's urban peripheries. Using a combined ethnographic and geospatial analysis, we provide a critical analysis of MCMVE (Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades), a community-based housing programme that alleges the use of autogestão - collective urban management organised around an ethos of social transformation. We find this claim to be misleading. Although MCMVE ostensibly increases access to housing, it is encouraging residents to leave established, well located settlements and relocate to isolated, peripheral tracts of land. Our study emphasises the need to reconsider how MCMVE might more productively assimilate autogestão and mass housing in the future.
KW - Brazil
KW - Housing policy
KW - Minha Casa Minha Vida
KW - Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades
KW - consolidated informal settlements
KW - sociospatial segregation
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U2 - 10.1080/19491247.2018.1540739
DO - 10.1080/19491247.2018.1540739
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061239704
SN - 1949-1247
VL - 19
SP - 311
EP - 336
JO - International Journal of Housing Policy
JF - International Journal of Housing Policy
IS - 3
ER -