Condições de moradia na Região Metropolitana de Porto Alegre

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present updated information about housing conditions in the Porto Alegre Metropolitan Region (RMPA), using data from the last Household Budget Research (POF) made by the Economics Study and Research Center (lEPE) to calculate the Consumer Price Index (IPC) of the Region. This research refers to 1995 and brings up-to-date Information from 1954 and some other years (1960,1965,1970,1975 and 1983) when it was applied. Firstly, some considerations about the Brazilian housing policy are presented, mainly referring to the possibilities on financing the lower income housing. Then, after a brief comment about the Household Budget Research criteria, a comparison between the last research (1995) and the previous ones is made, detailing that from 1995.