10 January 2024
An analysis of Egypt’s housing construction during 2021/2022
06 September 2023
Geographic mapping of damaged buildings, affected families, and deaths.
06 June 2023
Part II of the Taamir series looks at the history of a leading public real estate developer
18 April 2023
Part of the Taamir series on public real estate development in Egypt
State Of Housing
Who Owns Cairo? | Methodology
12 September 2022
Study methodology on ownership structures and landholdings
12 September 2022
An empirical study of real estate development in Egypt
State Of Housing
Background Paper 1 | Disclosure Requirements
11 September 2022
All stock exchange regulators require a minimum level of shareholder disclosure from the listed companies: i.e. that either companies declare who owns their stock, or, that investors declare what stock they own. These disclosures are typically required to show investors […]
CitiesReconciliation LawSelf-built Communities
Sixty Years of Legalizing Informal Buildings in Egypt 1956-2019
10 October 2019
A look back at sixty years of legalizing informal buildings in light of the ninth enactment of this so-called ‘temporary’ law
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Draft Egypt Housing Strategy: A Step in the Right Direction
25 March 2019
In-depth analysis of the proposed Egypt Housing Strategy
CitiesSafe HousingTransparency
The Duweika Disaster Ten Years On – Part 3: Trials Find No-one Responsible
31 October 2018
The legal and political proceedings around the disaster and their findings
CitiesHousing ProjectsSafe HousingTenure SecurityTransparency
The Duweika Disaster Ten Years On – Part 1: Disaster and Aftermath
07 September 2018
A series spotlighting one of the major urban and social events the city witnessed in contemporary times
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A million units for whom? Six facts about the Social Housing Project
28 May 2018
A closer look at the “Million Unit” Social Housing Project, the main subsidised housing project that was launched in 2011, with the aim to build one million housing units over five years, and is still active today. So, what has it achieved?
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Forced Informality: When Housing Rights and Building Laws Collide
25 April 2018
As part of the BEO’s State of Housing 2017 series,”Forced Informality” looks at how the building law encourages self-builders to break it
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A Tied Life: The Rise and Fall of Company Town Housing in Egypt
30 January 2018
As part of the BEO’s 2017 | State of Rent series, we take a look at in-kind housing, a from of tenure linked to one’s employer where rent is deducted from the salary, hence known as tied accommodation. Based on the […]
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Analysis: Government Policy Commodifies Housing
17 November 2017
Recent government policy developing high end housing and deregulating property market further commodify housing
13 November 2017
Examining the effects of electricity price hikes on poor and middle-income households, and questioning their justifications
Housing ProjectsPublic BudgetSpatial JusticeTransparencyTransportUtilities
The Built Environment Budget 2016/2017 | Part II: Spatial Justice by Sector
17 June 2017
A detailed analysis of population and needs-based public spending on housing, urban development, drinking water, sanitation and electricity
Housing ProjectsPublic BudgetSpatial JusticeTransportUtilities
The Built Environment Budget 16/17 | Part I: An Overview of Spatial Justice
15 May 2017
The Built Environment Budget 2016/2017, is The Built Environment Observatory’s second annual report analysing public spending on the built environment sectors in Egypt (Click here to read last year’s BE Budget 15/16). BE Budget 16/17 continues to shed light on […]
20 November 2016
As Egyptians, we have been raised since the 1950s with the notion that the Nile Valley and Delta, permanent home to our civilisation for over 7000 years, is overcrowded and cannot accommodate any more people. As architects and planners we have been trained over the last half century almost solely on designing mega regional, urban and land reclamation plans in the vacant desert. The purpose of these is to “redistribute the population” and absorb future population growth.
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The Built Environment Budget 15/16 | An Analysis of Spatial Justice in Egypt
19 November 2016
Introduction[1] Have you ever wondered whether the government was spending enough on transport? Or whether your governorate got its fair share of public expenditure? Or how strong national policy favoured New Cities? The Built Environment Budget series, starting with an […]
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The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Electricity
18 November 2016
*This section is part of BE Budget 2015/2016 Total Spending on Electricity About 90% of the electricity budget went to power stations and National networks (Table 16). Of the remainder, most (8.5% of the total) was spent on the construction […]
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The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Housing
18 November 2016
*This section is part of BE Budget 2015/2016 Total Spending on Housing A total expenditure of EGP 23.3 Bn translates to a national per capita spending of 259 EGP per person (Table 17). Over half of that is spent […]
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The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Urban Development
18 November 2016
*This section is part of BE Budget 2015/2016 Total Sub-national Spending on Urban Development While total spending on Urban Development was 6.6 Bn EGP, three quarters of that spending was for one New City in Cairo; the New Administrative Capital […]
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The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Waste-water
18 November 2016
*This section is part of BE Budget 2015/2016 Total Sub-national Spending on Waste-water Public spending on waste-water treatment stations and networks totalled 9.9 Bn EGP. This translates to a per capita spending of 109 EGP per person (Table 19). With […]
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The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Water
18 November 2016
*This section is part of BE Budget 2015/2016 Total Sub-national Spending on Water Public spending on drinking water treatment stations and networks totalled 5.3 Bn EGP. This translates to a total per capita share of 58 EGP per person (Table […]
The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Transport
18 November 2016
*This section is part of BE Budget 2015/2016 Programmatic Spending on Transport Total expenditure on transport was EGP 24.3 Bn. Of that amount, 58% was spent on projects with a regional reach and 42% on local projects, two thirds of […]