Arequipa, Peru – the Cuban government built, until the closing of March, just about 1,344 homes of the 10,795 that were missing, according to the plan drawn up in 2024.
With these data, the regime re -breaches for another consecutive year the indicators to increase the housing fund of the island, a situation that has been described in its own official press as “very complex”.
According to the annual working meeting of the Ministry of Construction (MICONS), reviewed in the newspaper Granmathe rhythm of the growth of these productions is maintained below the estimated, and the homes qualified as regular and bad increase, all due, mainly, to the fact that local productions of materials do not respond to the housing need.
“To meet this first priority program for the population, it is necessary to centralize attention in the manufacture of materials, as well as rehabilitate and build, rather than contain deterioration,” says the report.
Reynold Ramírez Vigaud, president of the Business Group of Construction Materials (GEICON), pointed out that cement production, last year, had unfavorable results, and only 10% of the capacity installed in the country was used.
In this regard, the manager said that once the first part of the investment in the plant is reactivated of cements Of Cienfuegos, and that this achieves its own financing to sustain itself, in addition to concluding the work in the factories of Santiago de Cuba and Nuevitas, the situation will gradually revert.
In the annual balance, other deficiencies that have impacted the current housing crisis also transcended. Among them, the limitations with the allocation of energy carriers and their physical existence, the lack of pieces, raw materials and import supplies, as well as non -technological equipment.
René Mesa Villafaña, head of the Micons, said that to counteract this situation it is expected to increase the production of concrete cement and produce asphalt concrete; Also, produce 11,230 tons of lime and increase the manufacture of bar bricks to 45% to implement it in vault production.
Beyond the constant planning of the Castro regime officials, the problem of housing is an increasingly critical issue on the island. Lack of capacity of the Government to manage the acute crisis by the recent step of weather phenomena, it has caused more than a third of the Cuban housing fund to be in poor technical condition.
The statistics provided by the general director of the Housing, Delilah Díaz Fernández, are overwhelming during the previous session of the National Assembly of the Popular Power: at the end of 2024 only 65% of 4,078,519 homes that exist in the background Housing are in good technical condition.
According to Díaz Fernández, there are still more than 12,000 damaged homes in Guantanamo by hurricanes and earthquakes, and about 10,000 expect solution.
Meanwhile, in Artemis there are more than 18,000 cases to resolve, and have only served 162 of the almost 13,000 victims in Granma by the earthquake.
The housing plan continues to decrease in Cuba. In 2023, it was projected to build 24,715 homes, but only 65% of that figure was completed, with 16,065 housing built.
Among the provinces most affected by this low performance are Havana, Camagüey, Las Tunas, Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo. The housing deficit in Cuba currently amounts to 856,500 homes.
