Housing Program and Social Conditions Impact: Evidences from “Minha Casa Minha Vida” Program Lotteries in Brazil

André Chagas and Guilherme Malvezzi Rocha ()
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Guilherme Malvezzi Rocha: Departamento de Economia, Universidade de São Paulo

No 11-2019, TD NEREUS from Núcleo de Economia Regional e Urbana da Universidade de São Paulo (NEREUS)

Abstract: Housing policies to improve the quality of life of the poorest have been employed for a long time. In developing countries urbanization has increased the number of slums, supporting the creation of housing programs, like Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) program, launched in 2009 in Brazil. The program intend to provide better housing conditions to poor family. To reduce the construction cost the houses are built in surround area of the cities, far from business center. In this paper, we took advantage of a randomly selection of families in Rio de Janeiro (one of the most important cities in Brazil) and São José do Rio Preto cities (a big city in the countryside of São Paulo state, Brazil) to evaluate the it impact on social conditions, mainly related to the employment and income. By combining two administrative databases we were able to measure the changes in the labor market for both groups, drawn and not drawn. The frst conclusion is even with a random selection criteria, as the lottery, the program badly selected the benefciary families, benefting only one least linked to the labor market. Individuals with better job conditions choose remains the current house, independently of it structural condition or the neighborhood. To the benefciary, the program negatively affects the labor supply, reducing the likelihood that the benefciary will be formally employed. Also, the program increased the proportion of families receiving the cash income transfer. This work is one of the frst articles to analyze microdata from MCMV, providing an important measure of the program’s impact.

Keywords: housing policy; labor market; Minha Casa Minha Vida (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2019
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