After a 13-year pilgrimage in search of her own home, pensioner Fabiana Carlos da Silva, 44, will receive this Tuesday (4th) the key to the apartment in her name. She is one of the 1,344 people awarded with the delivery of 336 Minha Casa, Minha Vida apartments in Recife.
“I’m going to receive a well-structured apartment in a gated community. I already did the inspection and saw that I will have a decent home. They are not taking people out of the favela and throwing them in an apartment anyway. Everything is very well organized”, says the widow, mother of two, who lives off the pension from her youngest daughter’s father.
Consisting of 14 blocks of three floors, with eight apartments per floor, Condomínio Ruy Frazão, in the neighborhood of Afogados, in the capital of Pernambuco, serves Level 1 of Minha Casa, Minha Vida. In this category, the program subsidizes up to 95% of the property value to families earning up to R$2,640 per month in urban areas or earning up to R$31,680 per year in rural areas.
Intended for families from the Movement of Fights in the Neighborhoods, Lives and Favelas (MLB), the condominium has infrastructure for water, sewage, public lighting, electricity, paving and drainage. Served by public transport, the development has, in the immediate vicinity, public transport, a daycare, three schools and a health center.
In addition to owning her own home, Fabiana says that the main advantage of Minha Casa, Minha Vida is the reduced amount of installments. Instead of paying R$500 in rent per month, the pensioner, who receives a minimum wage from the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), will pay around R$120 in installments. “I will be the beneficiary of a house, but I will pay according to my income”, she praises.
Construction
For the unemployed Wandeberg da Silva Durval, 33 years old, the inauguration of the enterprise will be even more special. Through an agreement between the MLB and the construction company, he will live in the apartment he helped build. “For a year, I worked with a formal contract and helped build my apartment and that of several other families in the movement,” he says.
Currently unemployed and beneficiary of Bolsa Família, Wandeberg lives on odd jobs to support his partner and three children, one of his and two of his wife. He must pay the minimum installment of BRL 80. “The amount, I will only know when signing the contract, but the program is designed for those who cannot afford it at the moment”, declares the beneficiary, who currently pays BRL 400 in rent .
Goals
Since the beginning of the year, Minha Casa, Minha Vida has delivered 4,785 Housing Units in 11 cities in eight states, with an investment of R$ 491.8 million from the federal government so far. The schedule foresees the completion of around 7,400 housing units under the program in April and May. With an investment of R$ 590.5 million in Union resources, the new works are located in 17 municipalities in 12 states, in four regions.
According to the Ministry of Cities, the housing program is committed to contracting 2 million housing units by 2026, including service lines subsidized by the General Budget of the Union and financed with resources from the Fundo de Garantia por Tempo de Serviços (FGTS).
