Havana Cuba. – “There is not a week that we stop going to Vivienda, but they always tell us that they have no answers for us,” say Yudeisy Rodríguez Chaple and Estrella Martínez Rodríguez, two Cuban women who, more than two years ago, the regime gave them homes without finish, and of which they do not even own property.
“The portal is unfinished, [igual que] the floor, the bathroom; They did not put the fittings in the bathroom, I put the batteries in, I put the sink in, the hydraulic installation in the patio does not exist either, they have left us unfinished and nobody knows anything”, complaint Rodriguez Chaple.
According to his account, two years after the buildings built in areas of the former Santos Suárez Hosiery Factory, municipality Oct. 10They still do not have drinking water, electricity or gas service.
“The institutions say that, as they entered [residentes] illegals here, they raised the brigade, and that is why they have not done anything else”, laments the interviewee.
Likewise, it details that the affected people have denounced the situation “in the General Comptroller’s Office, in the Provincial and Municipal Government, in the Municipal Housing Directorate, in the Prosecutor’s Office. We have gone to all places to make the complaint and nothing ”.
According to Rodríguez Chaple, despite the fact that different provincial inspections have arrived at the place and have confirmed the complaints made, no competent entity has resolved the situation.
“Specialists have come, people who belong to the [Dirección de] Provincial Housing to do surveys, to count the windows, to verify if they put in the houses everything that had been put in the list of the ECAL 6 [Empresa Constructora de la Administración Local número 6]”.
“I dare say that the director of ECAL 6 was stealing the materials from the State, because where is the material that she said she put here and that doesn’t exist? Every time you play the theme of the 11.11 houses [como era conocida la antigua Fábrica de Medias] Nobody wants to put their hands in, neither the mayor, nor the new Housing director [Municipal]because there is something that they do not want to be uncovered, ”says the interviewee.
In addition, Rodríguez Chaple insisted that there is “enough corruption” around the construction of houses in the area of the old Hosiery Factory. “I’m tired because I have five children going to work,” she laments. “I imagine that if I had money to pay the Housing people, I would have already legalized my house; That is why I want my complaint to reach the corresponding hands and they give it a solution ”.
A similar situation lives, to whom the authorities also delivered another of the unfinished houses. His is located on the third floor of the building.
“My house is the most finished of all, but I have been running into the biggest problems: I don’t have water here and it’s on the third floor, there is electricity but we are taking it from a clock [metrocontador] what is installed [de forma ilegal]. 37 families are taking the current from there; We don’t even pay it, and I want to be legal,” says Martínez Rodríguez.
According to the interviewee, every time she or others affected attend the Municipal Housing Office, the officials who attend them ask them for a period of 15 days to give them answers. However, since their claims began, two years have passed.
