This article aims to discuss how people situated in the lowest salary range have access to the PMCMV, using as an example the experience of the "Sem Teto" in Salvador. This work discusses whether this Program expresses the autonomy or the capture of the state, and concludes that the PMCMV, ambiguously, allows the poor to have access to homeownership. Nonetheless, this program aggravates the problems related to the productive insertion of these people, it leaves untouched structural issues regarding the access to services and to the urban land, and prioritises the interests of the civil construction industry, a strategic sector in the neo development pact currently taking place in Brazil. Based on a triangulation method, the text bases itself in statistics, oficial documents and empirical research, having as a theoretical reference the historic institutionalism and the Frankfurt School, that established the basis of a discussion regarding State and public policy.
State; Autonomy; Housing Rights; "Minha Casa Minha Vida"; "Sem Teto"
