Housing Problems in Cuba

Displaced individuals will have to pay a high sum for container houses: More than the cost of conventional homes

Container houses in Cuba: Official media boasts of the regime's latest "miracle" in housing

They will transform more than 3,500 shipping containers into housing for Havana

Cubana returns from the U.S. to live in Cuba and this is how she is remodeling her home on the island: “I am happy to be back.”

Cuban mother denounces state abandonment following Hurricane Melissa: "We are living out in the open."

Government orders the destruction of the room built for Ashlin's therapies in Matanzas

Fire in an elevator shaft causes alarm in building in Vedado

More than 116,000 homes damaged in eastern Cuba by Hurricane Melissa

Neither free nor spacious: the price of the "quick fix" of converting containers into housing in Guantánamo

Santiago has accumulated 6,000 cases of damaged homes since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and now adds another 137,000 due to Melissa

Partial collapse in building in El Vedado reignites alarms about the housing crisis in Cuba

Marrero urges converting more containers into homes to address the housing crisis in Cuba

Containers as an "immediate" solution: Government to expedite their conversion into housing amid housing collapse in Santiago de Cuba

Díaz-Canel calls for the reconstruction of Cuba after six decades of destruction: Did he confess the real reasons?

"At just 18 years old! A young Cuban achieves owning his own house in Cuba: 'For me, it’s the best I could have.'"

These are the container homes that will be delivered to the victims of Hurricane Melissa in Holguín

Cuban healer shares reflection after Hurricane Melissa: It wasn't the cyclone, it was poverty that left you without a roof

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 housing construction program using shipping containers

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

Police intimidate family in Santiago de Cuba that bought logs to repair their house

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

The number of impacted homes in Santiago de Cuba due to the effects of Melissa has risen to over 95,000

Cuban shows abandoned mansion on top of a mountain: “And so many people without homes in Cuba”

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

"Will no one be left without support? A mother with a disability and her child survive under a thatched roof in San Andrés, Holguín."

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

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

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

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

Economist warns that financial vulnerability exacerbates the tragedy of those affected by Hurricane Melissa in Cuba

"And where is the Holguin native Lis Cuesta?" Cubans ask after Melissa's passage and the devastation in the East

The Cuban regime will "benefit" hurricane Melissa victims with materials at half price

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

Journalist from a Santiago de Cuba station injured after her home collapsed due to Hurricane Melissa

Family seeks help from Holguín: “If we were struggling before the cyclone, we are worse off now.”

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

Cuban families survived Hurricane Melissa sheltering in caves

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

Díaz-Canel visits the container houses in Holguín

This is how this Cuban lives in Cuba: she shows how her dream house on the island is coming along

"Everything came crashing down": Cuban shows his destroyed house after the passage of Melissa in Santiago de Cuba

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

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

His parents fulfilled his dream of buying him his first house in Cuba at 25: "Not everything went perfectly."

Melissa threatens Cuba and the country trembles: Empty warehouses, patched roofs, and fear in every home

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

Revolutionary engineering in Centro Habana: if the building sinks, close the ground floor and await the worst

Fire breaks out in building in Centro Habana

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

Slowness and limited information on the assembly of container houses in Guantánamo

Family left on the street after fire in Santiago de Cuba

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

Residents of the mobile home park in Sweetwater face imminent eviction

Container homes: This is how they are made livable in Europe... and in Cuba?

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

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

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

"With God's favor, I will fix it for her": Cuban responds to criticisms about her family's wooden house in Cuba

He returns to Cuba to surprise his mother, and the condition of her house provokes criticism: "Few dollars get there."