MÉRIDA, Mexico.- The lack of capacity of the Government to manage the housing crisis, exacerbated by the passing of meteorological phenomena, has caused more than a third of the Cuban housing stock to be in poor technical condition, according to they threw the interventions of Cuban officials in the session of the National Assembly of People’s Power.
The data provided by the general director of Housing, Delilah Díaz Fernández, is overwhelming: at the end of 2024 only 65% of the 4,078,519 homes that exist in the background housing are in good technical condition.
The intervention of the Cuban woman, reported by the regime’s official media, showed that what was approved in the Housing Policy, and what was indicated in the directives for the Housing and local production plan in 2024.
The official explained that of the 7,478 completed homes that are expected to be counted at the end of December, only 8.5% have been executed with a brick wall solution; and 0.5% of singing. Months ago, the regime clarified that this year’s housing plan was about 13,492 units.
On the other hand, of the 168 municipalities in the country, 59 have not completed the basic housing cells planned in the plan and Havana is the one with the worst situation, with ten municipalities that have not completed what is contemplated.
Almost half of the houses approved basic structures have not been built: there are already 3,461 without starting, of the 8,331 accepted. The largest number of pending homes are in Granma, with 469; In that province there are also 33,126 floors of uneradicated land, out of a total of 87,368.
With a debt of tens of thousands of houses to Cubans, the regime promises to complete 12,183 homes by 2025 “through different means”; finish 6,209 of the state sector and start 4,068.
According to Díaz Fernández, there are still more than 12,000 homes damaged in Guantánamo by hurricanes and earthquakes, and about 10,000 are waiting for a solution.
Meanwhile, in Artemisa there are more than 18,000 cases left to be resolved, and they have only attended to 162 of the almost 13,000 victims in Granma due to the earthquake.
The housing plan continues to decrease in Cuba. By August, the Cuban Government had only managed to fulfill 39% of the construction plan for new houses, planned for some 13,492 units in 2024.
In 2023, it was planned to build 24,715 homes, but only 65% of that figure was completed, with 16,065 homes built.
Among the provinces most affected by this poor performance are Havana, Camagüey, Las Tunas, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo. The housing deficit in Cuba currently amounts to 856,500 homes.
