Ministry of Cities
The Ministry of Cities is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil, created on January 1, 2003.
History
The ministry was created on January 1, 2003, at the start of the first presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. According to The Guardian, "the ministry was set up to tackle the urban chaos of Brazil’s traffic-clogged megacities."The post was maintained under the subsequent presidencies of Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer. When Jair Bolsonaro became president on 1 January 2019, he merged the position with the Ministry of National Integration to form the Ministry of Regional Development, under minister Gustavo Canuto.
When Lula became president for the second time, he re-established the ministry on January 1, 2023. Jader Barbalho Filho was appointed Minister of Cities, who pledged to rebuild the public housing program.
Structure
- National Secretariat for Urban and Metropolitan Development
- National Secretariat for Urban Mobility
- National Housing Secretariat
- National Secretariat for Environmental Sanitation
- National Secretariat of Peripheries
Collegiate bodies
- Council of Cities
- Board of Trustees of the Social Development Fund
- Management Council of the National Social Housing Fund
- Interministerial Committee on Basic Sanitation
- Participation Committee of the Residential Leasing Fund
Linked agencies
- Brazilian Urban Train Company
- Porto Alegre Urban Train Company
List of ministers