This study aims to analyze the current process of urban sprawl in Marabá, Para state, by analyzing the implantation of Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida (PMCMV) in the districts Sao Felix and Morada Nova. It is evaluated how the housing units developed into PMCMV - Group 1 (for families with monthly income up to R$ 1.600,00) impact that process and whether, finnaly, they constitute a new moment in the city's urban sprawl. It was observed that, after the implantation of two developments already built and implying the repercussions after the conclusion of other two still being built, the significant increase in the number of households, as well as in the infrastructure, will reinforce both districts as urban sprawl vectors where the process of public-private partnership has the following characteristics: a) an enhancement in the peripheral character of the location of social housing without changes in the urban structure of the districts Maraba Pioneira, Nova Maraba and Cidade Nova; b) the occurrence of real estate speculation within the process in which rural lands were converted into urban lands; c) strong participation of real estate capital which, by the rules of PMCMV, is the one who has the initiative for the developments, within the same logic of production for market housing; d) Relative absence of the Municipality as an actor in that process, also due to the conduction of the program by the Federal Government in partnesrhip with the private sector. Due to that, it was possible to observe that the implantation of PMCMV - Group 1 ends up being a means for the real estate capital to strengthen the situation of districts Sao Felix and Morada Nova as urban expansion areas of the city, specially as a place for residence of low-income population and reproduction of the labor force, constituting Marabá as a significant example of capitalist production of urban space.
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