Local and extra local real estate agents: new logics of urban space production, an analysis of the crediting process in the Program Minha Casa, Minha Vida in Marília/SP

• Grant number: 14/24405-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2014
• End date: November 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Eda Maria Góes
• Grantee: Klesia Bezerra de Moura
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/20155-3 - Socio-economic cohesion and contemporary spatial practices: cities of medium size and consumption, AP.TEM

Abstract

The observed changes in rates of growth of real output in recent years in expanding the supply of new homes and the impact they have made on the price of land and housing is accompanied also by further structural changes in the organization of real estate capital charge by acting directly on this sector of economic activities. Beside the opening of several of these capital in the stock market, resulting in a new level of competition and spatial expansion of its operations, still verifying the strong presence of small and medium local capital acting strictly on the scale of each city. Within these changes in the activities of real estate agents will pick up, articulating another process gaining strength that is the financialization of the real estate market, with reinforcements from the supply of credit available via credit card for the supply of furniture and home appliances - the "My House Best card" - tied to those who were awarded houses "Minha Casa, Minha Vida".