Q COSTARICA
In Cuba, the government guarantees everybody a place to live, but away from the tourist sites, the majority of the houses are in stark disrepair. The empty spaces are often converted into parking lots or playgrounds.
Colonial past
A view of a street in central Havana, showing the reminders of a prosperous colonial past.
Warning sign
“Danger of collapse”: a sign warns pedestrians walking on the sidewalk below an old house near the Malecon esplanade, which stretches around the seafront in Havana.
A temporary abode
Ricardo García Peréz, Mario Ramos Leyva and Maidany García Bernandez live in an old factory that produced medicines that they inherited from Maidany’s grandfather. Lacking the money to maintain the 200 square meter (2,150 square feet) building, they’re now looking to sell it.
Hanging in there
Alcario Labrada
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