O Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida e as Tecnologias de Microcrédito: Contribuições para uma Agenda de Pesquisa

Ambrozio, Lucas; Gonzalez, Lauro

doi:10.21527/2237-6453.2019.47.120-135

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“…They use their agency to respond to individuals and circumstances at the frontline instead of only responding to rules, procedures, and laws (Maynard-Moody and Musheno, 2000). Credit agents also use discretionary spaces to meet the local needs of micro-entrepreneurs (Ambrozio and Gonzalez, 2019). On the other hand, both SLW and credit agents may serve as gatekeepers in the access to scarce services and benefits, which is commonly associated with ‘negative discretion’ in the sense that it may adversely affect the expected policy outcomes (Alden, 2015).…”

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Improving public housing policies that target low-income households: The value of adding proximity to discretion

Gonzalez

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2021

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Research on street-level bureaucrats has examined the various ways in which these professionals have implemented public policies in areas such as healthcare, education, and security, often emphasizing the role played by discretion in the implementation process. Despite its importance, the concept of street-level bureaucracy has scarcely been approached by housing studies. This study focuses on the role of street-level workers in the delivery of public housing to the lower-income population. We affirm the value of complementing street-level discretion with the concept of proximity, a premise borrowed from the microfinance literature, to increase the understanding of the interactions and relationships established between street-level workers and policy recipients during the implementation process. Such complementarity may contribute to a more accurate understanding of the housing policy implementation dynamics on the street-level and the possible adjustments to meet local needs. To explore this issue, we used a theoretical lens inspired by Goffman’s frame analysis that points to the importance of relational mechanisms that characterize the interactions between street-level workers and beneficiaries. These lenses were applied to a collective case study of Minha Casa Minha Vida-Entidades, a Brazilian subprogram in which street-level workers linked to social housing movements assume a leading role in the planning and execution of interventions. The results indicate that the combination of proximity and discretion has a positive influence on the implementation of housing policies. Our analysis shows the existence of nonprofit-oriented arrangements that may present different features and nuances at the implementation (micro) level and contribute to the (macro) debate on housing policies.

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“…Faixa-1 is the cluster that includes families whose monthly income is less than two minimum wages (approximately US$550 in 2019). For this group, recipient families were supposed to pay between 5% and 10% of the house value (Ambrozio and Gonzalez, 2019).…”

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