Miguel Coyula is an architect, urban planner, and professor at the University of Havana. The capital city of Havana, home to 2.1 million people, according to Professor Coyula has become a place to live but not a place for living.

Coyula, whose scholarship has chronicled the history of Cuban architecture since the colonial era, has noted that thanks to government subsidies, home ownership in Havana is extremely highabout 87%. However, because the average house is 75 years old and maintenance subsidies are nonexistent, many residents homes are in great despair.

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