Important factors of the capitalist accumulation activities are related with the housing production, having as result conflicts of urban spaces appropriation. From these statements, the present article aims to present an investigation about social housing policies and production in Brazil and Mexico, considering three major historical periods. This paper involves the comprehension of the transformations that occurred in the economic and urban social spheres of these countries, such as the understanding of the influence of neoliberalism's growth in the end of the XX century. In the article, the transformations are related with the modifications that occurred in the political and economic field of Brazil and Mexico. Therefore, the study sought to understand the historical periods and the alliance of public and private agents in the production of social housing.

The growing advance of the condominium dissemination in Brazil is presented as a threatful reality in different aspects, such as urban and social segregation, increasing in environmental degradation and irregular appropriation of urban space. As a way of mitigate those impacts, Brazil counts with adapted certification systems and environmental evaluations for the country’s reality. The Brazilian Standard Regulation, NBR 15575, is one of these, such as the Procel PBE Edifica, Selo Casa Azul Caixa and the GBC Condomínios, which presents in it’s demands and guidelines an alignment with 2030 Agenda objectives. In that regard, the present research aims to display a brief understanding of the condominium dissemination, presenting a comparative analysis of these environmental certifications, which are liable to implementation for a more sustainable urban development in Brazil. The work is structured on a bibliographic review on the phenomenon of the condominium expansion,as well as Brazilian environmental certifications and labels that can contribute to increase sustainable projects that are consistent with the precepts of sustainable urban development.