Artemisa, Cuba - The main solution to housing problem lies in the increase of materials local production . Each municipality must build a house daily propose greater efforts also in popular councils, said Salvador Valdés Mesa, First Vice President of the Council of State and Ministers, in meeting of the Council of the Provincial Administration.

During the analysis of compliance with housing policy in the territory, the investment process of agencies and other related issues, the member of the Political Bureau insisted on the territorial ordering, the authorization of areas to be built and turn places and closed schools into houses.

Imilsis Romagosa, Director of Housing of the Provincial Administration, reported that the housing fund deficit amounts to 25,000 houses, 4,950 affected by weather events - most of them in Candelaria, San Cristóbal and Bahía Honda-, to be completed in five years.

The municipalities must attract entities and organisms to integrate them into this endeavor, an important task together with the control of resources, greater use of natural deposits and mills, said Gladys Martínez, member of the Central Committee and First Secretary of the Party in Artemisa.

Of the agencies involved, the Maintenance and Construction Company is the most morose, due to the lack of steel, aggregates, doors, although they produce the rest of the elements, said its director Leonel Cruz.

It also analyzed the problem of collections and payments, more acute in the Food and Miscellaneous Articles, Logistic, Community and Commercial operations; the latter owes the Wholesale Company 27 million pesos.

Zoila Hernández, general director of Economy of the Administration, emphasized, among other causes, difficulties in the completion of the economic equipment, in the use of the Versat system and the lack of control of cash in cash.

The municipalities must attract entities and organisms to integrate them into this goal , an important task together with the control of resources, greater use of natural reservoir and mills, said Gladys Martínez, member of the Central Committee and First Secretary of the Party in Artemisa.

Of the agencies involved, the Maintenance and Construction Company is the most delayed , due to the lack of steel, aggregates, doors, although they produce the rest of the elements, said its director Leonel Cruz.

It was also analyzed the problem of charges and payments, more troublesome in the Food and Miscellaneous Articles, Logistic, Community and Commercial operations; the latter owes the Wholesale Company 27 million pesos.

Zoila Hernández, general director of Economy of the Administration, emphasized, among other causes, difficulties in the completion of the economic equipment, in the use of the Versat system and the lack of control of cash.

Valdes Mesa said that non-payments must be resolved, not with the State budget, but with institutional management, discipline and responsibility of the director and his council, while he called managers to participate in all the meetings of the first process of the report back of the XVIII Mandate, from November 15 to December 30.

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