Ministry of Cities

Jader Barbalho Filho, Minister
Sérgio Duarte, Executive-Secretary
Carlos Tome Junior, Secretary of Urban and Metropolitan Development
Hailton Madureira, Secretary of Housing
Denis Andia, Secretary of Urban Mobility
Leonardo Picciani, Secretary of Environmental Sanitation
Guilherme Simões Pereira, Secretary of Suburbs

Websitewww.gov.br/cidades/

The Ministry of Cities (Portuguese: Ministério das Cidades) is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil, created on January 1, 2003.^[2]

History

The ministry was created on January 1, 2003, following the inauguration of President 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."^[2]

On January 1, 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro had it merged with the Ministry of National Integration to form the Ministry of Regional Development, led by Minister Gustavo Canuto.

Following Lula's victory over Bolsonaro in the 2022 presidential election, Lula went on to re-establish them ministry on January 1, 2023. The newly appointed Minister of Cities, Jader Barbalho Filho, has pledged to rebuild the Minha Casa, Minha Vida [pt] public housing program.^[3]

List of ministers

No.	Minister	Took office	Left office	Time in office		President
1	Olívio Dutra (born 1941)	1 January 2003 (2003-01-01)	20 July 2005 (2005-07-20)	2 years, 200 days	PT	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT)
2	Márcio Fortes de Almeida (born 1941)	20 July 2005 (2005-07-20)	1 January 2011 (2011-01-01)	5 years, 165 days	Independent	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT)
3	Mário Negromonte (born 1950)	1 January 2011 (2011-01-01)	2 February 2012 (2012-02-02)	1 year, 32 days	PP	Dilma Rousseff (PT)
4	Aguinaldo Ribeiro (born 1969)	7 February 2012 (2012-02-07)	17 March 2014 (2014-03-17)	2 years, 38 days	PP	Dilma Rousseff (PT)
5	Gilberto Occhi (born 1958)	17 March 2014 (2014-03-17)	1 January 2015 (2015-01-01)	290 days	PP	Dilma Rousseff (PT)
6	Gilberto Kassab (born 1960)	1 January 2015 (2015-01-01)	15 April 2016 (2016-04-15)	1 year, 105 days	PSD	Dilma Rousseff (PT)
7	Inês da Silva Magalhães (born 1963)	15 April 2016 (2016-04-15)	12 May 2016 (2016-05-12)	27 days	Independent	Dilma Rousseff (PT)
8	Bruno Araújo (born 1972)	12 May 2016 (2016-05-12)	13 November 2017 (2017-11-13)	1 year, 185 days	PSDB	Michel Temer (MDB)
9	Alexandre Baldy (born 1980)	22 November 2017 (2017-11-22)	1 January 2019 (2019-01-01)	1 year, 40 days	PP	Michel Temer (MDB)
10	Jader Barbalho Filho (born 1976)	1 January 2023 (2023-01-01)	Incumbent	1 year, 109 days	MDB	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT)

References

^ "Portaria do MPO adapta orçamento para 2023". Ministério do Planejamento e Orçamento (in Brazilian Portuguese). 16 February 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
^ ^a ^b Scruggs, Gregory (2019-07-18). "Ministry of cities RIP: the sad story of Brazil's great urban experiment". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
^ "Governo Lula: acompanhe o segundo dia de posse dos ministros". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-01-13.