The Cuban content creator @adianetttt, residing in Miami, shared a new video on TikTok yesterday showing the progress of the construction of her house in Cuba, accompanied by the message "Making progress every day more."
The clip shows the house built with uncoated concrete blocks, featuring a flat roof, with no windows or doors installed yet, and the surrounding land is unpaved. The text "Our little house in Cuba" appears over the images, encapsulating the pride with which this emigrant documents her project.
What makes this case special is the scale of the economic effort behind the project. In December 2025, @adianetttt revealed that she purchased the property for $11,000 and that by that time, she had invested more than $60,000 in the reconstruction, including materials, labor, and trips to the island.
The detailed costs shared illustrate the challenges of building in Cuba: each wall cost her 3,500 dollars plus materials, and the slab of the house amounted to 7,000 dollars plus additional expenses.
The project is not limited to the basic structure. In March 2026, @adianetttt revealed that the house includes a concrete pool in the yard, which she is also building from scratch, "little by little and with a lot of sacrifice."
To maintain control over the construction from a distance, in January 2026, it went viral by showing how she monitors the construction from Miami using security cameras connected to a router with a prepaid phone line, along with an EcoFlow device that keeps the system operational during frequent power outages.
The case of @adianetttt reflects a trend that has gone viral on social media: Cuban emigrants who finance construction projects on the island through remittances, savings, and earnings from digital platforms, documenting the process in real-time for their followers.
This situation occurs amid a severe housing crisis in Cuba, with an estimated deficit of over 805,000 homes and a chronic shortage of materials that drives up the cost of any construction project.
92% of the remittances received by Cuba come from the United States, and Cubans in Miami send an average of $2,165 per year to their families on the island, according to data from elTOQUE, making emigration the primary driver of private construction in the country.
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