President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated, this Tuesday (26), that there will be no shortage of credit for construction entrepreneurs to invest in residential projects for the Brazilian population. During the opening of the 99th National Meeting of the Construction Industry, at the headquarters of the National Confederation of Industry, in Brasília, Lula once again defended the importance of include the middle class in the Minha Casa, Minha Vida Program (MCMV).
“We started by building houses for the poorest people, then we evolved”, reported Lula. “It’s fair for a person who earns R$8 thousand, R$9 thousand, R$10 thousand to be served by a program government because these people work. These people are bankers, metalworkers, chemists, printers, they are people who work on their own, they are small entrepreneurs and we have to serve these people”, he concluded.
“They will say that ‘Lula only thinks about the poor’, ‘he has to be very poor for Lula to take care of’, no! We want to take care of the Brazilian people. But there is a part of the people that needs the State’s help and there is another that doesn’t. And we also have to take care of those that we don’t need, making life easier for business owners. Therefore, I want to say one thing: there will be no shortage of credit for us to build houses in this country”, said Lula.
The president spoke about the creation of the MCMV, in his second term, in 2010, and the negotiations, over time, for improvements in projects, such as increasing the usable area, quality of finishes, social, leisure and cultural infrastructure, and adjustments to residences built in rural areas. Lula also demanded that entities in the construction sector also monitor public works bidding processes and that companies respect the results to avoid judicialization of projects and delays in works. “The government can be an inducer, but the builder is the one who knows how to build, who has this experience”, he said.
“And we have to do decent things because if there is one thing we need to treat the most humble people with respect. He already suffers for being poor, he already suffers for not having access to the great things that other small groups have. So we need to show him, at the very least, respect”, added the president.
