Due to the relentless pursuit of profit and competitiveness, builders, generating a final product with various nonconformities, constructive defects and pathological manifestations, affecting the efficiency and durability of buildings, as well as the safety of users, often overlook the quality criterion.This research raised the pathological manifestations in popular buildings located in the city of Cascavel -PR, seeking to indicate the frequency of the identified problems and to verify the influence of the expansions in the real estate in relation to the emergence of pathological manifestations.To carry out this research, a quantitative and qualitative approach was used to the pathological manifestations present in 11 popular residences, built in the 90s by the popular housing program of the Paraná Housing Company -COHAPAR.The survey of the problems was carried out with on-site visits and the use of photographic record annotations to, based on the bibliography, suggest the probable causes and a repair method that could be applied, in addition to the application of the GUT methodology.Urgency and Trend) for analysis.In the surveyed buildings, the most frequent pathological manifestations were vertical and horizontal fissures, with 38% of the total manifestations.Manifestations directly related to humidity and infiltration also had a high incidence in most buildings.The places most affected by pathological manifestations in buildings were the external areas, because they are more susceptible to the weather.