ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on individual property relations and interests, specifically housing, personal property, and agricultural property. Inevitably, however, changes in the law affecting socialized property will have consequences for private property as well. Rights to private property in Cuba continue to exist but within a sphere of use and enjoyment that is bounded by social, economic and political considerations. Housing law in Cuba has been guided by the social objective of providing shelter to all citizens. Individual rights to housing and to home ownership are limited by this goal as well as a policy that eschews the enhancement of personal property interests through investment or speculation. The Constitution specifically protects the rights of citizens to personal property, which consists of one's income and savings, one's principle house and vacation house, means or instruments of personal or family work and other forms of goods that satisfy the material and spiritual necessities of the individual.
