A influência das cooperativas habitacionais uruguaias nos movimentos socias pró-Moradia no Brasil

Abstract

The problems of the latin-america ́s city and the debate about the lack of housing are as old as the capitalism and had been discussed since he hygienist movement in our countries, followed by the populist governments and recent governments. It is possible to identify a historical path in our housing policies and recently, it is possible to recognize the similarities of the housing policy in Latin-Americans countries based on World ́s Bank orientation. Those policies have in common the recognition of the credit as the main form to resolve the housing problem, as it is consider a market problem. On the other hand, we can find the Cooperative Housing Policy in Uruguay witch has on the last 50 years produced high quality homes, with low cost and a different relation to its citizens and has been so successful that had been incorporated by Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The Brazilian housing policy had followed the same trajectory of the Latin-American country of mass production by governmental initiative, but an organic movement had emerged on the last 30 years demanding another kind of public housing policy. This movement had found its inspiration on the Uruguayan cooperative policy.