Program My House My Life and its formal results in Uberaba (MG): residential Tancredo Neves

• Autor(a) principal: Maluf, Carmem Silvia
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Donoso, Verônica Garcia, Valicente, Mariana, Oliveira Júnior, João Batista de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Paisagem e Ambiente (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/paam/article/view/97121
• topic: Housing policy “Minha Casa Minha Vida”. Urban morphology. Social housing. Urban form. Production of space.; Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida. Morfologia urbana. Habitação social. Forma urbana. Produção do espaço.

This article proposes the discussion of the housing policy “Minha Casa Minha Vida” (“My House My Life”), its consequences and recurrent transformations for urban space, with focus in the analysis of the urban morphology resulting from Tancredo Neves residential subdivision, located in the municipality of Uberaba (MG, Brasil). This social housing has some single features, differing of other social housing, since the public intended to misuse of Permanent Preservation Areas (APP) by the residents. The results of this analysis reinforce the importance of government in promoting housing, and identifies the recurrent reproducibility of housing models, and show how this proliferation of housing units impacts on urban morphology, bringing with questionable consequences for the landscape.