The present dissertation is a reflection about the self-management housing production directed towards the low income population in Brazil. To achieve our objective, we first devoted our research to a historical reconstruction of the popular housing movement trajectory and its relation to the self-management principle, inside the national housing policies, from the Military Regime until the President Lula's Government. In this context, we assume that the construction of any public policy, and especially the housing one, is a result of the natural dispute of interests between the Government, the market, and the civil society. Furthermore, we believe that the popular housing movement is a result of this interaction, where it grew, matured, and started to interfere in the housing policies' formulation. Therefore, the creation of the Program of Support Credit, as part of the National Housing Policy, is not a simple punctual claim, but another step in the trajectory resulted from this interaction. In the process of analysis of the of election, elaboration, operation, and implementation of the Program of Support Credit-defined as our instrument of analysis to understand the importance of self-management in the Housing Policy of Lula's Government-we verified the limits and potentialities for an effective use of the self-management principle in the current public housing action.