In the contemporary city, the area is suitable for the most different groups with disparate goals and made for the sake of momentary needs, thus contributing to the production of urban space in continuous transformation process and the formation of a city increasingly unequal due the diverse uses of urban land, the main feature private ownership of it.Because of these inequalities, many are conflicts and one of them is to search, by low-income classes, the right to housing and is in this sense that the state through the housing policy of social interest search "soften" such conflicts.This paper aims to present some reflections on the production and reproduction of urban space in the capitalist city and the constraints of current housing policy of social interest aimed at the lower income classes, which nowadays is referenced at the national level, the program Minha Casa, Minha Vida.In building this, it makes use of theoretical research on highly relevant authors to the theme as well as for Urban Geography.It is used yet, researchers who give us a solid foundation about the housing policies of social interest in Brazil.