Celso Carvalho's article, recently published in Carta Capital magazine, offers important reflections on the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program, as well as the need to promote changes to its strategy. Carvalho points to the high cost of urban land as an obstacle to providing Social Interest Housing (HIS) in the most valuable neighborhoods of Brazilian cities—the so-called "land knot" (nó da terra). In short, Carvalho argues that the new MCMV should:
1) build on well-located land, even if it is more expensive, and
