A construction crane stands next to the Capitol in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. One of Cubas main social problems is a shortage of quality housing caused by decades of inadequate ...

Alamar is the largest public housing project in Cuba, if not one of the largest in the world, with 100,000 residents. In a country sworn to socialist equality, it is arguably Cuba’s most equal ...

Cuba experts caution that the new measure is just a first step toward solving the housing crisis, and note that it deliberately stops short of creating a freewheeling, capitalist real estate market.

Dilapidated homes in the country are going up for sale for the first time in 50 years. A woman looks out from her balcony in an old building in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. With the ...

Cuba experts caution that the new measure is just a first step toward solving the housing crisis, and note that it deliberately stops short of creating a freewheeling, capitalist real estate market.

May 29—CUBA, N.M. — Some medical staff at the Cuba Health Center commute from Rio Rancho, Albuquerque and even as far as Los Lunas. One emergency services worker commutes 600 miles round-trip ...

That highlighted one of Cuba’s main social problems: a shortage of quality housing caused by decades of inadequate maintenance, a lack of new housing and impediments facing people trying to fix ...

Anet Ayala and her dog peer from her balcony in Havana, Cuba, Monday, June 13, 2022. Ayala and her brother filled out paperwork to get authorization to legally fix their home, which dates to the ...

Cuba's government has long struggled to build sufficient new housing or maintain existing structures, and tried to keep a tight hand on private efforts, believing — often correctly — that ...

Cuba needed another 862,000 homes to adequately house its people — up from an officially estimated shortfall of about 500,000 in 2005.

Cuba’s government has long struggled to build sufficient new housing or maintain existing structures, and tried to keep a tight hand on private efforts, believing — often correctly — that ...