My home is here! Perceptions of Minha Casa Minha Vida Program’s beneficiaries

Abstract

This article discusses the implementation of the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program in Barbalha, Ceará, Brazil. To do this, it uses data related to the discursive dynamics of this policy’s beneficiaries and resorts to the documentary framework that underlies its actions. In this confrontation arena, the players expose the implementation difficulties and the deficiencies in the decision-making process of this program. We must consider the impact of housing policies on the sustainable development of cities and the consequent expansion of social opportunities for their inhabitants, hence the scientific and political relevance of this case study, with a qualiquantitative approach, which, relying on the techniques of bibliographic survey, documentary survey, and field diary, in addition to the application of a semi-structured interview, analyzed, focusing on the Raimundo Pedro da Cruz Residential Complex, in the municipality of Barbalha, the process of implementing a housing policy that highlights the consonances and dissonances of such a process.