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The challenge of innovating in social housing initiatives and community urbanization: the proposals of João Pessoa, Brazil

The challenge of innovating in social housing initiatives and community urbanization: the proposals of João Pessoa, Brazil

February 3, 2020 por Clementine Tribouillard - Esperanza González-Mahecha 1 Comment


When we think of projects involving housing for low-income people, the examples which appear in our minds are in general characterized by massive buildings, with uniformity and poor architecture aesthetics, without landscaping and with unwell thought-out maintenance. Beyond that, often, housing solutions are developed in regions distant from networks of employment, transport, urban infrastructure, leisure, among others.

These are recurrent characteristics, due to several factors including: the scale of the social challenge which needs to reach thousands – if not millions – of families; a civil construction sector which often chooses to privilege new constructions in larger sets instead of smaller interventions; the lack of articulation with the community, since the projects designers often do not take resident’s preferences into account; low budgets available; financial calculations generally not including economic, environmental and social collateral costs; procurement processes which are not in accordance with sustainability criteria.

Similar massification in several times and countries (here, Sevilla in Spain and Teresina in Brazil). Source: Urbs Polis and Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento.

In João Pessoa, capital of the State of Paraíba, a set of forces have aligned in the effort of changing this picture. Under the Sustainable João Pessoa Program, a partnership between the City Hall and the Inter-American Development Bank, for a value of USD 200 million, the resettlement of more than 800 at-risk families in the area called Beira Rio Complex is expected. The construction of housing units for these families will also be accompanied by urban improvement works for the eight communities which are part of the complex, such as paving, public lighting, drainage and linear park along the Jaguaribe River.

From the beginning, the teams agreed on the importance of changing paradigm and are proposing an intervention based on fundamental pillars such as:

  • Small-scale housing sets, divided into three plots located within the neighborhood and inserted in the urban area;
  • Focus on maintenance costs reduced to a minimum, not to weigh on household budgets, allowing, for example, water and energy-saving (water-saving devices, individualized water measurement, bioclimatic architecture to reduce air conditioning demands, among others);
  • Use of local and/or recycled materials, and promotion of sustainable construction sites, not only for the buildings but also for public spaces, urban furniture, etc;
  • Gender inclusion from the conception phase, using tools such as gender walks to identify specific needs and expectations, thinking of income generation and entrepreneurship spaces, preparing for greater inclusion of women in the civil construction market;
  • Functionality and modularity, to propose heterogeneous, pleasant, aesthetic collective and individual living spaces, with the possibility of a planned expansion, because, after all, the architectural design should not be restricted to a few!

Best practices of well-succeeded urban interventions for the low-income population (evolutive homes in Quinta Monroy, Chile; low-carbon social housing in Savonnerie Heymans, Belgium; gender-inclusive neighborhood ‘Women-Work-Cities‘ in Vienna, Austria). Sources: ELEMENTAL, MDW Architecture, Facebook FrauenWerkStadt. For more details, see the publication “Vivienda, What’s Next? “.

Internally, with the collaboration of partners such as the Brazilian Council for Sustainable Construction, the teams were trained, through several workshops on gender equity and green building. Last year, information and discussion sessions with key partners such as professional associations of the construction industry, architects and engineers were also organized, so that the local business network could be more receptive and proactive about these innovations.

Now, the time has come to start with concrete proposals: on January 24, 2020, the City Hall launched two calls for expression of interest, addressed to companies from all over the world, wanting to prepare, respectively, social housing and urban infrastructure projects. We hope that innovative proposals will arrive so that we will be able to tell the next chapter of this story soon! Call for Expressions of Interest Open Until 11 March 2020 for Innovative Infrastructure Projects and Until 26 March 2020 for Innovative Housing Projects.


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Clementine Tribouillard

Clémentine Tribouillard es especialista en la División de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano del BID en Brasil, se integró al equipo en 2018. Es francesa, formada en ciencias políticas, posee Maestría en Política Urbana por el Instituto de Estudios Políticos de París y especialización en Sociología Urbana por la UERJ. Clémentine ha trabajado 3 años en la Caixa Econômica Federal en Río de Janeiro en el diseño de programas habitacionales federales y en la rehabilitación de centros urbanos brasileños, antes de trabajar 6 años en África en programas de mejora de los servicios urbanos (agua, saneamiento, residuos sólidos) para la Unión Europea, las Naciones Unidas, el Banco Mundial y otros donantes. Después del terremoto, vivió 5 años en Haití trabajando en la reconstrucción de barrios de bajos ingresos, en el reasentamiento de familias y en la política nacional de vivienda. Ha trabajado en 35 países en temas de urbanismo, desarrollo económico y social, inclusión de género, sociedad civil y participación del sector privado. Actualmente, está liderando programas de urbanización de favela, gestión de riesgos, reasentamiento, vivienda social y ciudad inteligente, con un foco particular en temas de cambio climático e inclusión social.

Esperanza González-Mahecha

Esperanza González-Mahecha es economista y especialista en estadística de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Sus áreas de trabajo incluyen cambio climático, formulación de políticas públicas, modelos de optimización y edificaciones sustentables. Actualmente es consultora en la División de Cambio Climático del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID). Antes del BID, Esperanza hacía parte del Centro de Economía Energética y Ambiental (CENERGIA) en Río de Janeiro. Esperanza tiene una maestría y un doctorado en Planeación Energética de la COPPE/UFRJ en Brasil.

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  1. Stefanie M. Falconi says

    March 24, 2020 at 3:23 pm

    Our team at Instituto Limite would like to submit our Expressions of Interest in the “Innovative Housing Projects”

    We could not find information on the procedure to formally submit this interest, or how to show our experience and proposal for this call.

    We await your response! Thank you

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