HAVANA, Cuba.- The current complexities, accentuated by the upsurge in the U.S. blockade and limitations on material resources, did not prevent Cuba from ending more than 24,500 homes, 75 percent of the year’s plan, until August.

This was verified by the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, at a working meeting with authorities from different territories of the country and directors of that program.

The Cuban President has reiterated in different analyses on this subject, that it is inconceivable that a property is terminated without the previous certification of being habitable.

Following this criterion, 7,584 habitable certification had been granted until August, in correspondence with same number of dwellings concluded by state route, subsidies and self-effort.

Potential for Leveraging

During the analysis involving several Vice-Presidents of Government and ministers, Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes Menendez insisted on taking special care of the quality of products manufactured by local materials industries, even with potential for harness.

At the meeting, Samuel Rodiles Planas, president of the Physical Planning Institute, emphasized that in the plan of development of new properties, Holguin province and the Isle of Youth lag behind.

Vivian Rodríguez, director general of Housing, explained that in August it was greater the number of houses terminated along different ways, while the greatest arrears were in Pinar del Rio, Artemisa, Holguin, and Santiago de Cuba.

Subsidies, rehabilitation, refurbishment of citadels and recovery of weather affects were also subject to analysis.