Housing policies, perceptions of inequality and mobility: an analysis from quantitative-qualitative research

• Grant number: 17/06640-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2017
• End date: April 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Urban Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Adrian Gurza Lavalle
• Grantee: Isabella Hay Ide
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07616-7 - CEM - Center for Metropolitan Studies, AP.CEPID

Abstract

This project develops an analytical framework to understand housing policies in their multiple social, political, economic, territorial, and subjective dimensions. Drawing from a quanti-qualitative research design, and from comparative data collected in the cities of Porto Alegre and São Paulo, this project scrutinizes the socioeconomic stratifications and perceptions of beneficiaries of Brazil´s largest housing initiative, the Minha Casa Minha Vida program. Data was assembled through questionnaires executed in January 2017 as part of a research project conducted at the Center for Metropolitan Studies. Questions to be tackled are twofold: how do people connect and critically assess the institutional design and implementation of a social housing policy? How do they reconceptualize their lives in tandem with their new housing units? A quanti-qualitative approach-e.g. one that considers temporal and transversal rifts-on public policies and their various scales of governance, is fundamental to the understanding the role of intervention technologies on people's lives. (AU)