Social housing and vulnerability in the metropolitan region of the Paraiba Valley and the northern coast, and in São José dos Campos, SP

Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis of the production of social housing to the population in the income range of 0 to 3 minimum wages, and linked to the program Minha Casa Minha Vida (Program My House, My Life) from 2009 to 2016, also looking at its impacts on socio-spatial segregation in the Metropolitan Region of the Paraiba Valley and Northern Coast. To investigate the concept of social vulnerability developed by the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Institute of Applied Economic Research), we studied the results of the Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (Growth Accel-eration Program) and of the program Minha Casa Minha Vida. The regional analysis was done using the data collection on housing production linked to the program, and through the identification of vulnerability expressions in the cities. Finally, an intra-urban analysis was carried out in São José dos Campos, overlapping the places of implantation of the housing complexes and the map of social vulnerability, evidencing the process of peripheralization caused by the city housing policy guideline.