Minha Casa Minha Vida (my house, my life) programme
Pinheirinho dos Palmares II housing project, in São José dos Campos. The project is part of Brazil's 'Minha Casa Minha Vida' programme.
The MCMV programme is Brazil’s first nationwide house building programme. It was launched in 2009 with the aim to build 3.4 million new homes across Brazil.
In Rio de Janeiro, 66, 000 homes were planned as part of the scheme. This was hoped to help with Rio's rapidly-growing favela population: Population of the city's favelas was estimated to have grown by 27% between 2000 and 2010. The new accommodation is a mixture of styles from small apartment blocks to single-storey bungalows.
Aims of Minha Casa Minha Vida
- to build new housing, targeting those living in favelas
- to provide modern, more spacious accommodation
- to provide services that are not always available in the favelas:
- clean water
- sewarage
- mains electricity
- to build in edge of town locations and reduce overcrowding in central locations
- to encourage people to move through choice, replacign old policies of evicting favela residents and destroying thier homes