Cuban MPs assess progress of the Housing Program in 2024

Before the Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes Menendez, deputy prime minister of the country, Delilah Diaz Fernandez, general director of Housing, told the deputies of the Commission of Industry, Construction and Energy of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) the lack of attention of the territories to this sensitive program.

She specified that there is a housing deficit amounting to 856,545 houses to be built and 394,000 to be rehabilitated, and the most affected provinces are Havana, Holguin, Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba.

Havana, moreover, is the territory that least fulfills the items of housing completion, basic housing cells, rehabilitations, attention to mothers with more than three children and the solution to climatological affectations, Diaz Fernandez pointed out.

The performance of the Housing Program started in 2024 with a fund of 4,078,519 houses, more than half of which are located in urban settlements.

According to Diaz Fernandez, the implementation of the Housing Policy has coincided with a broad legislative process that supports it, transversalized by the demographic dynamics and the National Economic and Social Development Plan until 2030.

In this regard, more than 68,000 mothers with three or more children have been identified, but 41,615 of them are still waiting to receive housing.

A total of 8,514 families were benefited and around 5,086 had a definitive solution to the problems of their housing fund, she explained.

She highlighted that the country is working on the elaboration and future approval of the Housing Law in 2025.

Diaz Fernandez noted that the creation of a real estate agency is foreseen, by agreement of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers and under the supervision of the Ministry of Construction, for the development of low, medium and high standard buildings, and on the other hand, the possibility of converting administrative premises into housing is being considered.

For this purpose, investments are made in cement and steel factories and industrial-scale construction solutions are sought for tall buildings, for a better use of the land, resilience, sustainability and sustainability of the buildings.

Valdes Menendez considered that there is a lack of commitment of the territories with the housing problems of the people, especially those with few resources and for whom the Revolution was made, so to reverse the situation is a matter of urgency.