No surprise that a Communist government would depend on hand outs for their "free" healthcare....
Yea. Like the rest of the world!
I was going on YOUR citation that put the total utilities for the average Cuban at $2. So feel free to write up that monthly budget when you get a chance...
You want me to write up a monthly budget for you!?
No, I am arguing that the home ownership statistics you provided are bogus because the Cuban people have none of the freedoms with the property that would come with actual ownership. The state owns the real estate, the Cuban people borrow it.
Hey, youve already admitted the ultimate caveat in home ownership is if you can sell said home on a open market... We are simply going to go nowhere with this point.
You keep arguing that Cuban's own there own home because they hold the title... I keep pointing out to you that there is no freedom imparted by that title that would indicate that they actually own the home.
From an earlier source:
"Homeowners could buy and sell dwellings and land, but only at low government-set prices, and the state had first option to buy. Although little legal buying and selling of land and dwellings occurred for the next two decades, informal sales of land for self-building were common. Housing exchanges were the way most households moved to another dwelling, but the values of the properties—as determined by very low official prices—had to be certified as equivalent. Homeowners’ heirs were entitled to receive their share of a dwelling’s official price, however, the right to remain in and acquire the property—by amortizing the share due other heirs—was restricted to people who lived in a unit at the time of the owner’s death. Similarly, when a leaseholder passed away, existing residents could remain.
The 1984 (and 1988) General Housing Laws converted most leaseholders into homeowners, legalized most illegal and ambiguous tenure situations of tens of thousands of self-builders and others, permitted free-market private rentals and sales of roof-rights, and fostered self-building by both individuals and newly permitted housing cooperatives (which never got off the ground). The only groups not converted into homeowners were residents of tenements and shantytowns, who remained rent-free leaseholders, and occupants of units directly “linked” to workplaces. These laws also updated existing legislation regulating housing management, succession, house swaps, maintenance, repairs, and evictions, and they established the National Housing Institute. The 1984 law also allowed free-market buying and selling of land and housing, but it was restricted within a few years. Few households saw the need to sell, but pent-up demand and low supply led to high prices and some speculation.
By the early 1990s, more than 85 percent of Cuban households were homeowners, paying little or nothing for their units except for maintenance, repair and utilities. There were no mortgages or land and property taxes. Financing for purchases of units or repair was considered a loan, not a mortgage, and therefore dwellings were not used as collateral. The island’s economic crisis of the 1990s led to substantial hardship for many families who used their homes to supplement meager earnings by renting (legally) or downsizing, moving to a less accessible neighborhood, or selling through under-the-table transactions. After a decade of stricter regulations, in 2010, restrictions on building permits and the purchase of building materials were substantially relaxed, resulting in more construction and repair."
Cuba Opens to Private Housing but Preserves Housing Rights | Reimagine!
There are no property rights in Cuba.
Except there are.
The state can take all you think you own without compensation for any reason, and heavily regulates what you can do with their property while you pretend to own it.
