Housing Issues in Cuba

A Cuban returns from the U.S. to live in Cuba, and this is how she is renovating her house on the island: “I’m happy to be back.”

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

Government orders the demolition of the room built for Ashlin's therapy in Matanzas

Fire in elevator pit 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 homes in Guantánamo

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

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

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

Containers as an "immediate" solution: Government to expedite their conversion into housing in response to the housing crisis 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 has managed to acquire his own home in Cuba: “For me, it is the best one I could have.”

These are the container houses 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 sift through the ruins of the collapsed building that killed a mother and her son: "It's desperation."

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 floods

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

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

The number of affected homes in Santiago de Cuba due to the impact 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”

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

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 remains 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 $50,000 to victims in Santiago de Cuba

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

The economist warns that the lack of financial protection exacerbates the tragedy of those affected by Hurricane Melissa in Cuba

"And where is Lis Cuesta from Holguín?" Cubans ask following the passage of Melissa and the devastation in the East

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

Cuban regime reveals number of housing damages following the impact of Hurricane Melissa

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

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

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 from a Cuban in Cayo Granma, Santiago de Cuba

Díaz-Canel visits the container homes in Holguín

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

"Everything is gone": A Cuban shows his destroyed house after the passage of Melissa in Santiago de Cuba

Cayo Granma, in Santiago de Cuba, devastated by Hurricane Melissa: Houses destroyed and faces filled with grief

"Don't underestimate the wind": Guantanamo architect warns which houses won't 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 stores, patched roofs, and fear in every home

They could not contain their tears: Cuban family reunites under a downpour

Revolutionary engineering in Centro Habana: if the building sinks, close the ground floor and brace for 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."

Slow progress and limited information on the installation of container homes 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: Here's how they're made livable in Europe... and in Cuba?

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

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

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

"With God's help, I will fix it": Cuban responds to criticism over her family's wooden house in Cuba

He returns to Cuba to surprise his mother, and the state of her house sparks criticism: "Few dollars make it there."

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

"Even if it takes me 30 years to pay for it": Cuban woman defends her house in the U.S. after showing the one she has in Cuba

Collapse in Centro Habana leaves two minors and one adult hospitalized