Photo Feature by Ernesto Gonzalez Diaz
HAVANA TIMES – They are known as micro-brigade buildings because they were constructed by brigades made by a combination professional builders and the people who were going to live in them, that is, by their future residents. The so-called micro-brigade movement emerged in the 1970s to try to solve the growing and still unresolved housing problem in Cuba.
This movement was based on the release of workers needing housing from their workplaces with pay, to join the construction. Once the building was completed, an apartment was sold to the builder through a ban
