FINANCED SELF-MANAGEMENT IN HOUSING, THEORY AND PRACTICE: the case of Condomínio das Mangueiras, from the Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades Program, in Salvador, Bahia.
SELF-MANAGEMENT, MY HOUSE MY LIFE PROGRAM, CONDOMINIO DAS MANGUEIRAS
Formal housing production in Brazil, historically, is linked to the capitalist logic that considers housing as an expensive commodity in the real estate market. Given this, financed self-management in housing is part of public policy and is one of the demands of social movements for housing. It is about the viability of housing, understood by the housing unit, through the management of public financial resources guided by future residents with the possibility of collective construction. The Minha Casa Minha Vida Program, which has been in force since 2009, stands out in its “entity” modality (PMCMV-E), which includes financed self-management. In this context, this research project addresses the production of new financed self-managed housing units that presupposes building fairer and more democratic cities. Funded self-management programs are directly linked to relationships between actors (State, technical assistance and organizing entities) and need to function as a “tripod of equality” like the São Paulo municipal program FUNAPS-Comunitário (1989-1992), seen as a example in Brazil. However, the federal self-management programs financed in the country have criticisms regarding the construction of public policies, mentioned by their contradictions in the unequal relationships between the actors, and due to this, they do not enable what they propose, the construction of decent housing. In view of this, the aim is to fill a gap by analyzing the processes that existed to create the Condomínio das Mangueiras in Salvador, Bahia, which was part of the PMCMV-E. Bibliographical and documentary research and semi-structured interviews were carried out with actors who were part of the viability of the project to understand how from a municipal program that has become a reference in the country, the sense of self-management in the processes of making housing viable seems to have been deconstructed.
Formal housing production in Brazil, historically, is linked to the capitalist logic that considers housing as an expensive commodity in the real estate market. Given this, financed self-management in housing is part of public policy and is one of the demands of social movements for housing. It is about the viability of housing, understood by the housing unit, through the management of public financial resources guided by future residents with the possibility of collective construction. The Minha Casa Minha Vida Program, which has been in force since 2009, stands out in its “entity” modality (PMCMV-E), which includes financed self-management. In this context, this research project addresses the production of new financed self-managed housing units that presupposes building fairer and more democratic cities. Funded self-management programs are directly linked to relationships between actors (State, technical assistance and organizing entities) and need to function as a “tripod of equality” like the São Paulo municipal program FUNAPS-Comunitário (1989-1992), seen as a example in Brazil. However, the federal self-management programs financed in the country have criticisms regarding the construction of public policies, mentioned by their contradictions in the unequal relationships between the actors, and due to this, they do not enable what they propose, the construction of decent housing. In view of this, the aim is to fill a gap by analyzing the processes that existed to create the Condomínio das Mangueiras in Salvador, Bahia, which was part of the PMCMV-E. Bibliographical and documentary research and semi-structured interviews were carried out with actors who were part of the viability of the project to understand how from a municipal program that has become a reference in the country, the sense of self-management in the processes of making housing viable seems to have been deconstructed.