Reforms in the lease of urban property in Cuba. Notes to Decree-Law No. 322/2014 and Resolution No. 33/2014

Abstract

With the enactment of Decree-Law núm. 322 of 2014 amending the General Housing Act and its regulations, contained in Resolution núm. 33 of the same year, the Cuban legislator again places at the center of legal debate the subject of the lease Urban property in its broadest expression, while the current regulation covers not only the specific contractual headquarters but above all, the peculiarities of the exercise of the lease as an activity within the designated authorized to be exercised as self-employment. Thus the Cuban legislature returns once again his steps, this time to temper the legal regulation previously in force to the new realities facing the country. However, the repetition of stale legislative formulas and the assumption of new ones, inciting controversy over the relevance of the promulgated standard, which in our view, still far in contractual matters to address the socio-legal in real estate Cuban. On such issues running this Article, with the aim of putting on the debate, from the perspective of comparative law, some aspects of the current regime of the location of housing in Cuba.