Your own home

What the program says

Owning a home is the greatest dream of the Brazilian family, and the first asset that passes from one generation to the next. Whoever pays rent their whole life never builds anything of their own; whoever acquires their own home has somewhere to live and has an asset that secures the future. We will resume Casa Verde e Amarela (the federal housing program), with a target of 2.5 million homes and the lowest possible interest rate on financing. In line with “Brasil sem Medo” (“Brazil without Fear”), we will retake the areas now under the control of criminal factions, giving residents back the freedom to come and go in their own community — no one truly owns their home while the drug trade rules the street corner. We will promote the urban upgrading of degraded areas, preventing the risk of landslides on hillsides, and encourage land tenure regularization, prioritizing already consolidated urban areas and reducing vacant urban land, with public-private partnerships that integrate housing and infrastructure in the same contract. That way, the family that has lived in the same place for years gets the title deed in its own name — preferably in the woman’s name, as “Brasil por Elas” (“Brazil for Women”) provides. Without this document, the house cannot serve as collateral or be safely inherited; with it, it becomes a real asset. Decent housing has water and sewerage. The country’s greatest advance in this area has a first and last name: it was the Marco Legal do Saneamento (Sanitation Legal Framework), signed into law by the Bolsonaro government in 2020, which opened the sector to private investment and set the goal of bringing water and sewerage to practically the entire population by 2033. It was also one of the biggest environmental agendas in our history — because treated sewage is a clean river, a beach without contamination, a child who does not fall ill. The PT (Workers’ Party) government tried to dismantle it by decree; we will guarantee its full application and speed up concessions and partnerships to make access to treated water and sewerage universal, with special attention to rural sanitation. Piped water and treated sewage are the cheapest way there is to prevent disease. To this effort we add a direct social commitment: no school without water by 2030, and the goal of the Lixão Zero (“Zero Dumps”) Program, ending open-air dumps. It is not the kind of public works that shows up in ribbon-cutting photos, but it is the kind that does the most to sicken or protect a child. [p. 47, 48]

In plain language

• The program proposes resuming Casa Verde e Amarela, with a target of 2.5 million homes and the lowest possible interest rate on financing.
• In line with Brasil sem Medo, it provides for retaking areas under the control of criminal factions, to give residents back the freedom to come and go in their own community.
• It proposes upgrading degraded areas, to prevent landslides on hillsides, and encouraging land tenure regularization, with priority for already consolidated urban areas, reduction of vacant urban land and public-private partnerships that combine housing and infrastructure in the same contract. The stated aim is for a family that has lived in the same place for years to have the title deed in its own name, preferably in the woman’s name, as Brasil por Elas provides.
• The text cites the Marco Legal do Saneamento, signed into law in 2020, which, according to the text, opened the sector to private investment and set the goal of bringing water and sewerage to practically the entire population by 2033. It proposes ensuring the full application of the Marco Legal and speeding up concessions and partnerships to make treated water and sewerage universal, with special attention to rural sanitation.
• It provides for no school without water by 2030 and cites the goal of the Lixão Zero Program, to end open-air dumps.

What is not in the program

• It does not detail the terms of Casa Verde e Amarela (interest rate, families served, property values) nor the deadline for the target of 2.5 million homes.
• It does not detail how areas under the control of criminal factions would be retaken nor who would carry out this action.
• It does not define which areas would be upgraded or regularized nor how many title deeds would be issued.
• It gives no cost or source of funds for housing, urban upgrading and sanitation.
• It does not make clear whether the 2030 deadline also applies to the goal of the Lixão Zero Program.