At the end of 2022, 210 mothers with three or more children received comfortable housing in Ciego de Ávila, as part of attention to this demographic policy indicator, which seeks to protect women with multiple descendants in a situation of social vulnerability, from 2021.

The data was reported in his accountability by the governor of Ciego de Ávila Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, when talking about the results of a year in which the delivery of houses for this concept grew 1.5 times, compared to the year 2021.

Almost 12 months ago, this newspaper reviewed the “unnamed” —but incredible— story of Yarisnelis and Leonardo, a couple with four minor children who, in Ceballos, still seem astonished at the opportunity to have a home where all fit, without the narrowness of their ancient and very modest home.

She was the last "case" of 2021, with which 85 were completed, thanks to a fund of 25 million pesos for the purchase or construction of real estate for this purpose.

The statistics handled by the Provincial Government Council last May show, now, an accelerated pace in the following months. If at the end of the first quarter of 2022, 13 homes had been delivered, and the year closed with 125, the jump was great.

However, the number of mothers with three or more children in Ciego de Ávila identified last May was 2,192, and 1,325 of them needed housing, in eight of the 10 municipalities.

Therefore, this indicator of the Demographic Dynamics Attention Program still requires greater agility and resolution, even though the allocation of houses is not an axiom to always be met, but rather, as the individual analysis of each case explained.

In fact, Agreement 9009 of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers, dated 2021, indicates prioritizing not only the allocation of housing, but also financial resources for the construction, rehabilitation, expansion or remodeling of real estate to mothers, fathers or legal guardians with three children or more (up to 17 years).

In mid-December, the regular session of the National Assembly of People's Power received updated information on the demographic dynamics in the country, an issue described by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz as complex, due to the repercussions it has.

In that meeting, Marrero Cruz said that the nation "has not achieved the population replacement rate for more than 30 years, which is two children for each woman."

Hence, the improvements in the quality of life of those mothers with three children and more is a measure that "recognizes" the contribution to fertility in the country, although the accelerated process of population aging does not depend solely on this indicator.