With unmaintained buildings collapsing and Cubans facing a worsening housing shortage, the communist dictatorship is instead spending billions to build new luxury resorts for foreign tourists and their hard currency. This is socialism in action. Via CubaNet: According to tourism experts in the island, few hotel facilities are constructed in Cuba when compared to the rest of the world.In the face of a relentless construction of hotel facilities, which contrasts with the housing deficit the population endures and questioned by the Cuban people, Cuban authorities argue that ‘hotel construction is an international practice.