This paper aims to discuss the production of urban space as a result of the social housing schemes developed by the Brazilian State Programme Minha Casa, Minha Vida (PMCMV), having as the object of study and analysis the territorial distribution of these developments along the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre (RMPA), Brazil. Launched in 2009, with a significant contribution of public resources, the PMCMV is currently the main instrument of federal housing policy geared to the provision of housing nationwide. It aims to reduce the housing deficit with the production of about 3.000,000 new homes across the country, attending families with an approximately income between 0 and 10 minimum wages. The Programme was also one of the main responses from the government to the international economic crisis of 2008, aiming to increase investment in the construction sector, through the creation of jobs, and steering the Real Estate industry to meet the housing needs of low income sectors, a share of the market that the private sector previously did not contemplated. The data presented were collected from Caixa Economica Federal (main funding body of PMCMV) and refers to units contracted between the years 2009-2013 in the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre, distributed in the three income groups served by the program. The projects were georeferenced and analysed in relation to their specific location throughout the Region. Since this is a program that delegates to the private sector the primary role of producer and promoter of social housing, the PMCMV tends to position itself not as a transforming agency of the traditional market logic - which is believed to be one of the primary role of housing national policies of this size - but as another promoter of trends of socio-spatial exclusion and peripheralization of the underprivileged population.