Housing Crisis in Cuba

Cuban healer shares reflection after Hurricane Melissa: It wasn't the cyclone, it was poverty that left you homeless

Cubans are digging through the ruins of the building that collapsed and killed a mother and her son: "It’s the necessity."

The Cuban government acknowledges the failure of the program to build houses using shipping containers

They raised more than three million pesos for a mother from Holguín who only asked for food for her children

"Stop building hotels and focus on your people": Cubans erupt following the death of mother and son in collapse

Misery Revealed: Hurricane Melissa Exposes Six Decades of Structural Poverty in Cuba

A mother and her son die in the collapse of their home in Old Havana

In Santiago, I once again experience pain, abandonment, and misery

"This one is definitely crowned": Showcases the modern house that was built in Cuba and is causing a sensation on social media

Nurse in Santiago de Cuba denounces total abandonment after Melissa: Help passes in front of her house without stopping

Cubans mobilize to help mother in Holguín who pleaded for food after the passing of Hurricane Melissa

Eleven families in Granma receive tents as an official "response" following the floods

Elderly man in Santiago de Cuba loses his home for the second time after the passage of Hurricane Melissa

The number of housing damages in Santiago de Cuba due to the impact of Melissa exceeds 95,000

"We thought we would drown": Heartbreaking testimonies from residents of Santiago during the flooding from Hurricane Melissa

UN raises impact of Melissa: Over 3.5 million Cubans affected

Announcer Laritza Camacho on the failure of Díaz-Canel's housing plan: "Did he confuse homes with hotel rooms?"

Approximately 7,500 homes damaged in Holguín following Hurricane Melissa

Will no one be left helpless? A mother with a disability and her child survive under a thatched roof in San Andrés, Holguín

An elderly woman receives help after living under the remnants of her house destroyed by the hurricane in Holguín

Young victim of an assault in Holguín lost part of the roof of his house due to Hurricane Melissa

"Without intermediaries or bureaucracy": NGO director allocates 50 thousand dollars to victims in Santiago de Cuba

Heartbreaking scenes from Holguín: Families who lost everything due to the floods

"Not only freedom is needed, but help as well": Ulises Toirac on donations to Cuba after the hurricane

Cubans come together to help a mother and her children who lost everything in Holguín

The government has raised the number of homes damaged by Hurricane Melissa in eastern Cuba to over 45,000

An economist warns that financial disinvestment worsens the tragedy of those affected by Hurricane Melissa in Cuba

"The blockade is within": Guantanamera confronts leader over abandonment following Melissa's passage

Cuban regime reveals number of affected homes following the impact of Hurricane Melissa

Journalist from a station in Santiago de Cuba injured after his house collapsed due to Hurricane Melissa

Family seeks help from Holguín: "If we were doing poorly before the cyclone, now we are worse."

Abandonment and destruction: Families lost everything in Altamira, Santiago de Cuba

Cuban families survived Hurricane Melissa taking refuge in caves

“We have no food or milk for the girl”: the cry for help of a Cuban in Cayo Granma, Santiago de Cuba

Díaz-Canel visits the container homes in Holguín

Cayo Granma, in Santiago de Cuba, devastated by Hurricane Melissa: Destroyed houses and faces without solace

Desperation in Santiago de Cuba: Neighbors are taking off roofs to prevent Hurricane Melissa from taking them away

They defend evacuations in the caves of Guantánamo as a “measure of popular intelligence” in response to Hurricane Melissa

"Don't underestimate the wind": Guantanamo architect warns which houses won't withstand Hurricane Melissa

The incredible transformation a mother achieves for her daughter in Cuba: She turned an old room into a dream bedroom!

Pedro Monreal: "Cyclones exacerbate pre-existing social disasters such as poverty."

Blind and forgotten since Hurricane Sandy: Help requested for elderly man ahead of Melissa's arrival

House collapses in Camagüey leave several families affected

"There's always someone who feels bothered by the achievements of others": Cuban responds to criticism after showing his house in Cuba

They couldn't hold back their tears: Cuban family reunites under a downpour

Cuban doctor lives in a building on the brink of collapse in Havana: "My salary is not enough"

Díaz-Canel's visit to Chambas coincides with the collapse of a house in the area

Slow progress and limited information on the assembly of container houses in Guantánamo

"If I could do it, you can too": buy a house in Cuba thanks to social media

Family left homeless after fire in Santiago de Cuba

Housing crisis in Cuba: families living in abandoned hospital in Pinar del Río

One person dies due to a collapse in Old Havana

Granma: more than 30,000 families still live on dirt floors

Container homes are spreading across Cuba: They plan to build 133 in Sancti Spíritus

Container homes: Here's how they're made livable in Europe... and in Cuba?

Cubans react to the design of container homes in Guantánamo: "The town will be called Microwaves"

Progress on a settlement built with containers for those affected by Hurricane Óscar in Guantánamo

Cuban mother shows her flooded home in Guantánamo: “Children live here”

"It looks like it's straight out of a magazine! A Cuban showcases his home in Cuba and surprises everyone with how modern it is."

Cuban regime provides housing to a 13-year-old teenage mother and presents it as a “social achievement.”