| Sumario: | Comparative studies on anti-poverty programs enrich the design and evaluation of these actions. Venezuela and Brazil are implementing good anti-poverty practices in Latin America. The objective of this paper is to analyze food and housing programs in both countries and to try to know which of these two designs have more potential to emancipate poverty. Regarding food programs ‘Misión Mercal’ (Mercal Mission) is been executed in Venezuela, which is compared with ‘Bolsa Familia’ (Family Bag) in Brazil. As for housing programs it studies ‘Gran Misión Viviendas’ (Great Housing Mission) in Venezuela, in contrast with ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’ (My house, my life) from Brazil. In the theoretical and methodological field, this paper uses the concepts of training, degrees and functionalities from Amartya Sen to compare these food and housing programs. The text is divided into three sections: the first deals with Sen’s analytical categories; the second historically contextualizes the social programs in both countries; and the third part, analyzes and compares these food and housing programs. The study concludes that there are important differences between the programs that were carried in Venezuela and Brazil because evidence can be shown that the Bolivarian socialism promotes practices that encourage the transfer of products that generate income.
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