{"id":76828,"date":"2026-05-29T04:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/cuba-is-addressing-its-housing-crisis-with-shipping-container-homes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T04:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:30:04","slug":"cuba-is-addressing-its-housing-crisis-with-shipping-container-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/cuba-is-addressing-its-housing-crisis-with-shipping-container-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba is addressing its housing crisis with shipping container homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">A new initiative in Cuba is transforming shipping containers into homes to combat Cuba&#8217;s housing crisis. The containers are being repurposed to include two bedrooms, a kitchen, bathrooms and patios. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Delilah D\u00edaz Fern\u00e1ndez, housing director general at Cuba&#8217;s Ministry of Construction, said that more than 2,000 containers destined to become homes have been approved by the government, with 700 currently being converted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">BBC&#8217;s Will Grant visited Barrio Toledo, where the emerging community of container homes is being developed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Video edited by Blanca Estrada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cy92r54rjqro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new initiative in Cuba is transforming shipping containers into homes to combat Cuba&#8217;s housing crisis. The containers are being repurposed to include two bedrooms, a kitchen, bathrooms and patios. Delilah D\u00edaz Fern\u00e1ndez, housing director general at Cuba&#8217;s Ministry of Construction, said that more than 2,000 containers destined to become homes have been approved by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76830,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76828\/revisions\/76830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}