HAVANA, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called on to speed up the production of construction materials to solve the housing deficit in the Caribbean country.
During a meeting with his Cabinet, Diaz-Canel stressed the relevance of the construction materials, not only for housing but also for the investments related to the development of the country, as reported by the official daily Juventud Rebelde on Sunday.
It is essential to achieve adequate standards of the cement and aggregates industry, said the president to his ministers and insisted in the quality of the new dwellings to be built.
He also stressed the need to include permanent maintenance and repair plans in the construction schedules, to preserve the existing housing in the country.
As to erecting new neighborhoods and communities, the Cuban president insisted on reconciling all the ideas with the state plan, in order to foresee in which places is not convenient to build human settlements.
In the last decades, the weather events have forced the Cuban government to move entire towns away from the coastline and rivers.
As reported by the National Housing Institute, Cuba suffers a housing shortage of about 800,000 homes, which is considered the worst social problem in the island, forcing two or three generations to inhabit under the same roof.
