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Nowadays, buildings collapse like dominoes. In the Plaza de la Revolución municipality in Havana, most of the buildings on its central Infanta Street have
collapsed. Those that haven’t are empty,

since it has been necessary to evacuate
the residents due to imminent danger of
a collapse. If this is what happens in the
capital, just imagine what it is like elsewhere in the country’s interior.

Infanta and San Rafael streets
On numerous occasions, collapses have
resulted in deaths, of even very young
children. Another result of this that there
are more and more people living in
“shelter
housing,”
where
Afrodescendants make up most of the population. Many have been living in “shelters” for 20 years: the living conditions
in them are harsh and hope of one day
living in a decent home fade.

At the current time, construction policy
establishes that if a building collapses,
instead a new one being built, what is
built instead is a park, as if they could
resolve the serious housing problem that
affects an increasing number of people,
thousands of Cubans, and can be considered the most important of the economic
problems affection the population.

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