Traditional communities have the opportunity for dignified housing with the Sua Casa housing program
The benefit has guaranteed over 1,500 indigenous, quilombola, and riverside families the opportunity for dignified housing
The Government of Pará, through the Housing Company of Pará (Cohab), has benefited over 1,500 families belonging to traditional communities with the Sua Casa housing program, from 2019 to 2025.
Indigenous quilombolas and riverside residents had the opportunity to build, renovate, expand, or adapt their homes - in this case, families with persons with disabilities (PCD).
According to the president of Cohab, Manoel Pioneiro, ensuring access to dignified housing goes beyond improving the housing deficit indicators in the State of Pará. “It is shelter, it is security for a better future for each of these families, who dreamed of their own home, whether for the riverside resident living by the river, for the indigenous person in their territories, or the quilombolas,” pointed out Pioneiro.
For housewife Andrea Monteiro Soares, who lives in Soure, in the Marajó Integration Region, the opportunity came to change a lifetime reality in a wooden house, with structural problems. “I received both stages of the benefit and built a masonry house; in the old one, made of wood, it rained a lot inside, and now I can live with my children. There are still some things I want to finish, but I guarantee it is already wonderful,” she points out.
The Sua Casa Housing Program was created in 2019 by Governor Helder Barbalho and has already benefited over 120,000 families throughout the State of Pará. The benefit consists of financial assistance for the purchase of construction materials and also for the payment of the mason's labor. With the benefit, the amount can reach R$ 21,000.
Service: Registrations for the Sua Casa Program can be made at the Cohab headquarters in Belém for residents of the Metropolitan Region, from 8 am to 2 pm, and in other municipalities, registrations are made through the intensive work of Cohab. Registration is free.
To participate in the program, interested parties must meet the following criteria:
I - Family income of up to three minimum wages;
II - Not owning another property;
III - Being over eighteen years old or emancipated;
IV - Having a family constituted with at least two members;
V - Not having been benefited by another housing program at the Municipal, State, and Federal levels; and
VI - Proving that they have owned or peacefully possessed the property for more than five years.
Families that have already been benefited by other housing programs may be served exceptionally in case of a disaster, minimum habitability conditions, social vulnerability, and/or relocation.
