article_snippet.sent: Instead Carolina Sandretto focuses on "solares," the crumbling buildings that many Cubans divide and cohabitate, often with several generations and separate families sharing one dwelling.
article_snippet.sent: This situation of bringing into your house your husband or your wife and living with your own parents in your late 30s and 40s, I always thought is really interesting and different than the U.S. but similar to Cuba since that's the way it was 50 years ago," said Sandretto, who is from Italy.
article_snippet.sent: Following Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, houses and apartments were redistributed throughout Cuba and Cuba promised that everyone would have a home in the new socialist utopia.
article_snippet.sent: But building did not keep pace with the population, and Cubans were forced to adapt by dividing and re-dividing up homes to make room.
article_snippet.sent: I speak Spanish, which helps but not a lot because you have to speak 'Cuban,' which is another language.
article_snippet.sent: The people in these solares aren't the fortunate Cubans who have relatives visiting from Miami with flat-screens and smartphones in tow.
article_snippet.sent: The thawing in relations could even change life in Cuba's solares.
highlights_snippet.sent: Carolina Sandretto focuses on the crumbling buildings many Cubans live in together .
  