The Brazilian government's housing programs aim to solve the housing shortage, which is currently around seven million homes. The quantitative concern, not always articulated with urban and social policies, encourages the production of social housing using large scale and repetitive urban, architectural and construction solutions. In the face of this troubling reality, this study aims to contribute to improve the building quality of new housing projects, as well as to reduce the environmental impact caused by their premature degradation. The research approach adopted was exploratory case study. An investigation on the pathological manifestations in the Jardim das Palmeiras social housing project, in Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, was undertaken. In this project the building materials and sub-systems were fairly traditional, representing typical technologies used in the Brazilian construction industry. The main contributions of this research work are related to the origins of pathological manifestations, and feedback to the processes of design, construction management and use of social housing projects.
Social housing; Pathological manifestations; Quality; Durability of buildings; PAR -Residential Leasing Program
