Políticas de habitação no Brasil: impactos na indústria da construção civil no início do século XXI.

Abstract

The problem of lack of housing in Brazil has plagued large metropolitan areas for so long. The diligence – or inertia – from governments in order to remedy such problems can directly impact the civil construction sector and this article aims to analyze how these impacts can be perceived. Through a literature review and document analysis, a historical contextualization of the demands will be introduced and after this, data from important indicators of the construction industry will be presented, which will be compared with the investments made in the “Minha Casa, Minha Vida” Program in the same period. Crossing the data will make it possible to observe the direct influence exerted by the Union's subsidies in housing programs and the performance of the civil construction sector, as well as the negative effects for the segment from the reduction in investment. The reduced budget for public housing policies in recent years, almost non-existent today, in addition to bringing social losses, contributes to the strong recession in the civil construction market.