The Brazilian housing program - Minha casa minha vida: Effect on urban sprawl
Ciro Biderman, Frederico Roman Ramos, Martha Hanae Hiromoto
The Federal Brazilian Housing Subsidy Program “Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida”-PMCMV (My House My Life) was created in 2009 and has been the largest housing program ever implemented in Latin America. We analyze the effects of the PMCMV on urban sprawl and its trend comparing the urban footprint in 2005 and 2015 and then the change in trend from 1995 to 2005 vis a vis 2005 to 2015, using satellite images. The conclusion is that the Program itself has no significant impact on urban sprawl: municipalities that received investments from the Program did not sprawl more than municipalities that did receive those investments. However, the number of house units do have an impact on the spatial pattern of the urban footprint. This is not a clear indication that the Program is causing sprawl, but it is an evidence that the Program does have an impact on the urban footprint.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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