"Naquele momento em que ele foi instituído, no momento da crise, alavancou muito o emprego no país. O Minha Casa, Minha Vida é um dos projetos que mais alavancam o emprego. E ele tem uma capilaridade muito grande e faz distribuição de renda, principalmente nestes projetos para cidades até 50 mil pessoas."
"Pernambuco grew to have 4000 homeless people or living [rent free] as a favor. It was a number that only increased, until one day President Lula decided to face this problem intelligently. He created the Minha Casa Minha Vida and we joined forces."
Eduardo Campos, Governor of Pernambuco, during a ceremony awarding housing units of the Program in Timbaúba-PE. Diário de Pernambuco 02/20/13
"With the end of the BNH in 1986, since then Brazil has not had, from a national coordination point of view, a housing program. [The My Home My Life program] has the merit of trying to recreate a housing policy. We all know the strips where the housing deficit is concentrated: in families earning up to 3 minimum wages, which are in the weakesty position when accessing the formal market. They are not served by the formal market, if viewed from another perspective, through self improvement or home construction, in the slums . This program has that merit. It is a program that every developed country in the world has had. "
Pedro da Luz Moreira, president of the Brazilian Institute of Architects of Rio de Janeiro (IAB-RJ). Journal do Brasil Online (01/19/2014)