Cuba's historic homes teeter on brink as economy collapses
In Havana's old town, to walk on the pavement rather than the middle of the street is to take your life into your hands.
The ornate stone balconies of the decaying colonial townhouses jutting above your head are liable to collapse at any moment.
Tens of thousands of people housed in these monuments to pre-revolutionary Cuba, which were subdivided into apartments after Fidel Castro took power in 1959, live on the edge, literally.
In the densely populated Centro Habana district, a storm brought down the stone staircase, leading from the ground to the upper floors, in the neo-classical pink 1920s tenement where Marnie Estevez lives.
