🌍✨ Radically Collective: The Legacy of Cuba's Microbrigadas Housing Program
Why we’re watching: In the 1970s, Cuba faced a severe nationwide housing shortage due to population growth, rural-to-urban migration, and the degradation of existing housing stock.
The government's answer was a system that pulled ordinary workers off their regular jobs and put them on building sites instead. 💚
This program, known as the Microbrigadas (microbrigades), reshaped entire districts of Havana, where they combined collective self-construction and state-backed technical knowledge, which left a mark on the urban grid of its capital city that persists until…
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- 📌 Key signal: In the 1970s, Cuba faced a severe nationwide housing shortage due to population growth, rural-to-urban migration, and the degradation of existing housing…
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