Havana/In Las Tunas, where the housing crisis It has been anchored for years as an awkward guest, the authorities have decided to resort to a “novel” solution: convert recycled containers in homes. Metallic drawers are nothing less than those that transport solar panels to the island, and those that the authorities – who ensure that they are inspired by similar projects around the world – have decided to give them a second life.
Héctor Rodríguez Espinosa, Provincial Director of Housing, advertisement with optimism that the first containers will be installed in the municipalities of Manatí, Puerto Padre and Majibacoa. Among the advantages that are awarded are resistance, durability and low environmental impact.
“At the moment the province has 46, 18 of them were assigned to the electricity company for the construction of nine homes for their workers and 28 to deliver through the popular councils with the delegates, the community groups and the government in each territory,” said the manager.
As for the frequent “concerns” about the metallic material of the containers, which could turn them into houses, said there is nothing to be alarmed. Everything is designed: each improvised house will be covered inside with “anti -clergy elements”, which will also give some “aesthetics, comfort and better finish.”
They will have a plot of 150 square meters, so that “the family, if necessary and possible, can later expand by building other rooms”
Each unit will have between 32 and 70 square meters – part of bathroom, kitchen, dining room and rooms, attending to the number of residents – and the “ventilation” is secured with doors and windows, he said. They will also have a plot of 150 square meters, so that “the family, if necessary and possible, can later expand by building other rooms.”
While the tuneros will have to adapt to live in reconditioned metal boxes, some officials of the Housing Directorate itself were emptying other boxes: those of the state budget.
In Matanzas, the Popular Provincial Court judged On Thursday, two former officials of the sector – a director and an investor – for falsifying documents and embezzling funds. The trial, qualified as so many of “exemplary”, closed with a five -year prison sentence for the first and four for the accomplice, with the option of doing correctional work without internment.
According to Girónthe former director had signed – all procedures, a contract with a worker on his own to rehabilitate a multifamily building known as the transport building, in the cast of March 13. The agreement was closed, clarifies the medium, “obviating the unit’s contracting committee and without prior tender” and were not included in the document “The work object, the person in charge of supply, the representatives of the provider and the client, the warranty terms, the execution schedule, the relationship of persons authorized by the provider and the client to subscribe the minutes of compliance and acceptance and the materials.”
There was also no work in the building, which presented “severe structural damage”, but there was an invoice of more than half a million pesos
There was also no work in the building, which according to Girón It presented “severe structural damage”, but there was an invoice of more than half a million pesos for works that were never carried out. “No constructive action was executed to return the original and functional values to said building, as planned, and the property currently continues in the same state of deterioration, despite which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, [la directiva] He ordered the payment as if the constructive action had been executed satisfactorily, ”the newspaper settled.
The investor, on the other hand, never verified that the construction would have reached the end of the desired quality or requested the work file. Even so, he certified the entire process.
Both were also imposed a prohibition to exercise any position related to the “administration, care or availability of material and financial resources”, and their relatives – it is not clearly clarified – replaced the 531,486 pesos with 19 fraud cents, so housing did not see its assets affected.
The trial, which was made publicly, is a warning of the government – among the many that has launched in recent times – to officials and directors of low rank of the island. However, that such an obvious crime – given that the building was never repaired – it was overlooked until the last moment puts into question the management and control of state companies about their resources. Justice acted, but as usually happens in these cases, it was late.
