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Article: Housing problems put squeeze on many Cubans.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- November 27, 2002
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HAVANA _ When it rains, it pours _ literally, through the roof and onto the floor, the bed and the kitchen table of the humble home belonging to Luis Enrique Urgellas.
The 35-year-old baker lives with his wife and two children in a neighborhood called Indalla in Havana's La Lisa municipality. And even though the rain sometimes forces the family to evacuate, Urgellas said he's better off here than he was in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
"It's easier to find work here," he said. "That's why so many people come here from Santiago. They arrive all the time. Every two hours, I'd say."
In Cuban slang, Urgellas is known as a "Palestinian," in ...