Since early March, Hatem,* a senior Planning Ministry official, has been anxiously waiting for a text message confirming an appointment to sign a contract for an apartment in Badr City,…
In May, Sisi spoke in no uncertain terms and called for informal buildings to be razed to the ground
The delay may point to a power struggle between security and intelligence agencies, sources say.
The project’s finances are not subject to any public oversight or accountability
The new law is geared to incentivize property owners to license their buildings.
The opportunity to return is available to less than a quarter of the area's former residents
The State Council adjourned on Saturday its trial of the Warraq residents' lawsuit to January 26
Former Housing Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Suleiman was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison for squandering public funds during his time…
Egypt has spent billions of public funds over the last four decades on a housing policy that never reached its target beneficiaries,…
Forty percent of all Greater Cairo residents live in informal housing, according to a Ministry of Housing source, as reported by the…
«Since the mid-1990s, the Egyptian government has adopted neoliberal economic policies, reflected in real estate and the acquisition and accumulation of wealth. This has been evidenced…»
«In a previous article I pointed out four main challenges for the housing minister in providing adequate housing to the millions of families seeking their right…»
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