MADRID, Spain.- The Cuban government finished 21,229 homes during 2022, which represents only 58 percent of the plan planned for this year. These data were shared by Vivian Rodríguez Salazar, General Director of Housing of the Ministry of Construction (MICONS), during the recent meeting of the Industry, Construction and Energy Commission of the National Assembly of People’s Power.
The official, cited by the Cuban News Agency (ACN), indicated that “2 thousand more were finished than in 2021; however, the initial plan for the stage continues to be unfulfilled”.
According to his statements, “the material limitations were, fundamentally, in the deficit of cement, steel, imported raw materials for metallic carpentry, paint, sanitary furniture and other items”; situation that contrasts with the unstoppable hotel construction throughout the entire country.
“Subsidies are the section that presents the greatest delays when 2,744 basic cells were completed, only the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud executed that goal, while a greater commitment is urgently needed in the coming year,” added Rodríguez Salazar.
For her part, Inés María Chapman Waugh, Cuba’s deputy prime minister, urged “to concentrate limited material resources on helping communities and people in vulnerable situations.”
According to the Cuban authorities “problems persist associated with guaranteeing the documentation of the work one year in advance, prioritizing the execution of subsidies and precarious situations and the support of sponsor entities and centers assigned to the subsidized”.
Just as they referred to illegalities in the construction system, “whose main causes of events of this type are breaches of the guard services of security agents, deficient technical standards and protection in warehouses, and violations in the internal control of these.
In 2021, the housing debt of the Cuban Government with the population was greater than 40 percent in terms of the plan for the delivery of houses. This debt has increased during the current year, in which the housing crisis worsened after the passage of Hurricane Ian, last September, which only in the province of Pinewood of the river It affected more than 100,000 homes.
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