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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
Cuba has an eclectic mix of colonial and Art Deco homes, apartment complexes and impoverished buildings.
In November 2011, the government decreed that Cubans could buy and sell homes for the first time since the early days of the revolution, paving the way for a real estate market that has become an exercise in bare-knuckled capitalism.
Havana was once considered an architectural jewel with an eclectic mix of colonial homes and modern Art Deco construction, but much of the city outside the touristy old Havana district is in a dilapidated state after decades of neglect and corrosion from humidity and salty sea air.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
People walk beside a house in Havana's Miramar prime real estate area.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
People stand at the entrance of their colonial-style houses in Havana's prime real estate area of the "The Malecon" seafront boulevard.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A car is driven beside colonial-style houses on Havana's prime real estate area of the "The Malecon" seafront boulevard.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A woman stands at the entrance of her home on sale for $5,000, in Havana's Vedado area.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A woman stands at the entrance of her home on sale for $5,000, in Havana's Vedado area.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A health worker fumigates inside a home in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
Enrique Rodriguez, 67, sits inside his home in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
Migrant laborer Osleidis (C) and his neighbours work on the final details of his new home built on a piece of fallow state-owned land on the outskirts of Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A man holds a pig on a leash while sitting outside his home in Santiago de Cuba.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
Women look out of their apartment window in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
Jose Ramirez stands in front of his house that he is asking $55,000 for, in the city of Ciego de Avila, central Cuba.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A child looks from the window of his house in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A man walks past housing apartments in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A man hangs up clothes on the balcony of his apartment in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
People walk past a house decorated with mural in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A man cycles beside a house in Havana's upmarket Miramar district.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A woman stands at the door of her home in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A man waits for customers his privately-licensed coffee stall at the entrance of his home in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
Men build a new home beside an old palm-tree wood house at a farm in the village of Campo Florido, 40 kilometres (18 miles) from Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A man sits in the door of his house in Holguin.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A woman carries a ventilator outside her house as Hurricane Ike approaches in Playa Giron on the south coast of Cuba.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A man walks past a house in San Antonio de los Banos, Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A woman stands on the balcony of her house, which is located along the block-long painting known as "Callejon de Hamel" (Hamel street) in Centro Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
A family steps out of a house next to a door decorated with doves in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
Children sit at the door of a house next to an old man in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
Meple, a psychologist and university professor, walks down the staircase as his seven-month old daughter Africa takes a nap on a mat on the floor at their home in the Cerro neighborhood in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
Juan Carlos Flores, a poet and performance artist, lights a cigarette in the kitchen of his apartment in Alamar.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
Film historian Zoia Barash, 72, drinks a cup of tea in her apartment in Havana.
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A peek into Cuba's housing facilities
People stand outside their house in Havana.