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HAVANA, December 2 (Reinaldo Cosano Alén / www.cubanet.org) - Twenty
low-income families will be evicted from the decrepit homes they built by orders
of the East Havana Housing Authority, which then plans to demolish the houses.
The ramshackle structures, known locally as Camino del Tejar, near Guanabo
beach, were built by their occupants, little by little, with found materials.
"I came home and I found this," said one occupant, Meinardo
Chaveco. "I was building houses in central Cuba for people who suffered the
damages of hurricane Michelle."
Chaveco said he had been fined twice due to his improvised housing
arrangements. The first fine, of 800 pesos, is being taken out of his monthly
salary of 162.25 pesos a month. He still hasn’t paid it off and now he has
been fined 1,000 pesos, along with the eviction and demolition order.
"We all work," he said, referring to the other families who live
at Camino del Tejar, "we are all working people, and everytime we come home
we are afraid we are going to find smoke where our houses now stand," he
said.
All the families say the Housing Authority wants to knock their homes down,
but hasn’t made any effort to find them alternative housing.
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