SUPPORT FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIAL HOUSING AND LAND REGULARIZATION

Summary

Since 2015, the CAU/BR has been one of the main articulators and promoters of affordable housing in Brazil, through the promotion of Technical Assistance in Social Housing (ATHIS), as a professional practice and State Policy. From the dissemination of the Federal Law No. 11.888/2008 (ATHIS law) among the population and the public sector, CAU/BR have financed and disseminated successful experiences throughout the country. Starting in 2021, with the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and environmental disasters in cities and, especially, in vulnerable territories, CAU begins a unified campaign for a new proposal for professional valorization focused on the ATHIS. It is also CAU Brazil's role to promote an articulation among the federation units in favor of more resilient, inclusive, healthy, and safe cities, always encouraging actions that favor the development of public policies aimed at the survival and health of Brazilian cities. Thus, the purpose of the ATHIS Funding is to select at least one project in each region of the country and offer financial support for its development. The selected projects must be relevant to the promotion of social justice in the context of socio-economically vulnerable families, in issues related to Social Housing and the promotion of the adequate social housing as an institutional policy of CAU; and must prove their impact on the prevention and mitigation of climate risks and the recovery of areas degraded by environmental disasters through adequate social housing and land regularization in places of social vulnerability that have been affected between 2018 and 2022. The immediate results are on two fronts. The first, in the valorization, implementation, and dissemination of projects that share CAU Brazil's institutional vision in favor of an agenda that aims to build more resilient, inclusive, healthy, and safe cities. The second front is the direct impact on the communities served, since they are at risk and, with the technical support, can glimpse decent conditions for their future. With these actions, we aim to impact the public authorities regarding the urgency of taking effective measures to mitigate climate risks, especially for vulnerable populations. Measurements occur on a continuous basis, since the financing call foresees the project being monitored in a systematic way. The tools used to validate the activities in execution are the work plan and the rendering of accounts. Both are monitored by CAU Brazil's technical staff.