Decades of disastrous communist policies have left a significant portion of Cuba's housing in a derelict state, posing a high risk to its impoverished inhabitants. The Castro regime, which controls all aspects of Cuban life, appears to have no interest in improving housing or maintaining Cuba’s historic buildings.
The ongoing collapse of Cuba caused by decades of disastrous communist policies has left a significant portion of the nation’s housing in a derelict state, posing a high risk to its impoverished inhabitants, who live in buildings that could collapse at any time. Collapsing buildings are a recurring deadly problem for Cuba ns.
The communist Castro regime, which controls housing and all other aspects of Cuban life, appears to have no interest in improving housing for its people nor in maintaining Cuba’s historic buildings, many of which are presently in a precarious state. The lack of investment in repairing or constructing new buildings or homes has left a growing number of buildings either uninhabitable or in danger of collapse, as evidenced by a recent gas explosion in Havana’s Hotel Saratoga that killed 45 Cuban citizens. The explosion caused severe damages to not just the hotel, but also to surrounding structures. Despite this crisis, a recent statement issued last week by Delilah Díaz Fernández, the communist regime’s Director General of Housing, claimed that 65 percent of Cuba’s 4.07 million homes are deemed to be in “good technical condition.” The Castro regime official also admitted that out of Cuba’s 168 municipalities, 59 have not completed basic housing units, with ten of the municipalities located in Havana.“On the issue of housing our studies say that around 30-percent is in good condition, everything else needs to be repaired or is in danger of collapse,” explained Yaxis Cires, advisor to the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), a non-government organization. Entrepreneurship advisor Ángel Marcelo Rodríguez Pita pointed out to Martí Noticias that the Castro regime has no way to supply the needs of people who need to repair their houses and suffocates the “private sector” that does. The regime has announced have limited wholesale commercialization to private companies, which now cannot import cement or sand. So how do they expect to transform the construction situation in the country?” Rodríguez Pita sai
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