HAVANA.- Victims of a collapse of a central building in Havana They narrated the very poor conditions in which they find themselves in a shelter assigned to them by the regime while they remain waiting for the authorities to provide a solution in the face of his misfortune.
Those sheltered report that they have already more than a month waiting for responses from the regime. Meanwhile, they remain practically crammed into a grandparents’ house located in San Rafael and Campanario, in Havana.
The building they lived in collapsed on December 13. It was a construction that had previously been seen to be in danger, on San Lázaro and Perseverancia streets in the Cuban capital. Weeks before, its inhabitants had already warned of the damage to the structure of the building. “I said it, the next collapse is going to be the building where I live,” said Gustavo, one of those affected and who is now sheltered in the grandparents’ house.
The housing crisis in Cuba has not been stopped by the regime. In December 2018, ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel said that they would build more than 100,000 homes a year, which in the first year of that plan would break the housing construction record in the history of the island. But the reality is different. At the end of October 2023, only 13,000 properties had been completed, for 54% of the plan. At the beginning of that month, The regime recognized a deficit of more than 800,000 homes in Cubain a report on compliance with the Housing Policy approved in 2019.
“We can bathe, heat water, use the bathroom, but there are nine of us using the same conditions, that is, the same bathroom, the same house, here we have no privacy, there is nothing, it is a place, this is old, because this is a nursing home where they come here to spend most of the day doing activities and we are also here in the middle of these situations,” the woman told martinoticias.com.
The woman continued that the food they are given is of “poor quality.” “Many of us can’t even eat. My mother often can’t eat anymore because she can’t eat it anymore, the quality is very bad.”
He stated that until now No authority has arrived at the scene to give them an explanation about their situation.. “I’m worried, we’re worried, we’re not sure about anything… The only thing we know is from the neighbors, because really neither the government nor any of those facilities have come here to give us an explanation, much less the face “.
Another of those sheltered, Antonia, said that “we have been here for that we have a desire to live.”
“The only thing I wish is that they would look for a way to solve the housing problem,” said Enrique.
In January 2020, a report from the official Cuban press stated that There are more than a hundred transit communities in Havana alone. The transit communities are the shelters.
While the housing problem in Cuba becomes increasingly worse and more evident, the regime gives priority to construction in the tourism sector. In the first half of 2023, the regime allocated a quarter of the 41,616,003 million state investment to the construction of hotels and tourist facilities, according to figures from the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI).
This sector accounted for 10,406 million pesos in the first half of the year, despite the fact that seven out of every ten hotel rooms were unoccupied in the same period.
Source: EDITORIAL / With information from martinoticias.com
