Last Tuesday (3), the new Minister of Cities, Jader Barbalho Filho, announced the return of the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program. According to the minister, the government has guaranteed R$ 10 billion for investment in the area in 2023. Renan Filho, Minister of Infrastructure, emphasized that the government stands out for its social achievements for the people.

According to the minister, more than a million people were forced to leave their homes or threatened with eviction during the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the inauguration ceremony, he also stated that Brazil has a housing deficit of 5.9 million homes and that the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program, established by the Lula government in 2009, had contracted 4.2 million apartments by the year 2016.

The Minha Casa, Minha Vida housing program was launched by the Lula government in 2009 to help low-income families purchase their first home. In this way, citizens have the right to buy their own home with lower interest rates, whether in the city or in the countryside.

In 2020, former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) replaced the program's name with Casa Verde e Amarela. According to a publication by Agência Brasil, the minister stated: “We have to rebuild almost everything in this folder, including Minha Casa, Minha Vida. Such an important program in this country, recognized by the population, but discontinued“.

Barbalho Filho also highlighted that he intends to prioritize sanitation and said that he will not restrict investments in the region and that investments should be greater in the poorest areas where there is no interest from the private sector in investing.

“Let's move forward wherever we can on the issue of basic sanitation. Today there are around 1,200 communities where there is no sanitation provided by the private or public sector", he said. Regarding the approval of the sanitation framework in 2022, Filho said that it will encourage private investment in sanitation.

We know that in many areas of the country, especially the poorest, where there is little or no sanitation, the private sector is not interested in investing. In these areas the government must act, he said.

Furthermore, the minister also defended dialogue with social movements for housing and announced the creation of the National Secretariat for Policies for Peripheral Territories. “It is you [movement members] who bring the experience and organized demand from part of the population that has given up in recent years“, he concluded.

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