According to João Crestana, president of SECOVI (Housing Union), in the next 12 years, Brazil will need 900 million square meters of urban land to build houses, as a prognosisof Construbusiness Fiesp 2010. There are 24 million homes to be produced! To meet this need, it will be necessary to reposition the general concepts of urban development policies, hitherto grounded in uncompromising defense of the sprawl of cities as opposed to crowding.

Compact cities, with work, home and leisure nearby solving, in large part, the problems of mobility, is a model adopted worldwide. The establishment of good rules of urban occupation – compact and sustainable – is the way to maintain the success of the housing and cities development policies.

This is the challenge for governments and society. The population will continue to grow and concentrating in urban areas and we can not insist on the maintenance of the models that exclude lower-income families in urban centers, condemning them to the suburbs or slums.

Source: www.secovi.com.br