State Of Housing

The state of housing series covers key housing and urban topics in Egypt year on year

Background Paper 2 | Government of Egypt Investments

The Government of Egypt (GoE) was found to be an investor in five of the ten listed real estate companies in our case study. The pattern of investment constituted two main branches of the Executive – the Cabinet mainly, and […]

Background Paper 1 | Disclosure Requirements

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 […]

Women and Housing 4 | Single Women as Tenants: Eviction Threats and Instability

In our Egypt State of Housing 2022 series, we focus on the state of women and housing in Egypt. Women and housing series looks at the gendered reality of women’s housing situations from a perspective of the right to safe and independent housing. In Part 4 we look at eviction threats as a manifestation of gendered housing access, the case of single women renters.

Women and Housing 2: Residents not Detainees

In our Egypt State of Housing 2022 series, we focus on the state of women and housing in Egypt. Women and housing series looks at the gendered reality of women’s housing situations from a perspective of the right to safe and independent housing. In Part 2 we answer questions of how and why these housing rights for women are a necessity.

Women and Housing I: Why Women and Housing?

In our Egypt State of Housing 2022 series, we focus on the gendered reality of women’s housing situations from a perspective of the right to safe and independent housing. In Part I- we introduce the series by identifying the problem and the questions to be addressed.

Betterment Levies – Development Brief

In recent years, the government began implementing a fairly old law that’s rarely used, to tax real estate which is adjacent to public urban development projects. And in 2020, a decision was issued to collect in exchange for improvement on all the properties adjacent to the new urban development projects in Cairo. Does this mean that the owners of the properties adjacent to the Heliopolis bridges, Nasr City, and street expansion projects, may pay a tax soon in exchange for the improvement ?!

Expropriation Law Amendments – Development Brief

The law of expropriation for the public benefit is one of the most important laws that affect urbanization and daily social life in Cairo. The law has been amended so once in the ten years that have passed regarding compensation and the methods by which money is paid to the beneficiaries / injured. Read more about the amendments to the law and their impact on urbanization and housing in Cairo.

Real Estate Registration Law Amendments – Development Brief

The Real Estate Registration Law stipulates that no service provider transfers facilities to the names of new real estate owners or allows facilities to be delivered/supplied to newly built real estate, which was immediately sold unless proof of real estate registration is submitted. After the law was almost neglected by the Landlords, officials began a campaign in February 2021 to remind landlords to register before March 4. Read more about the importance of real estate registration, the reasons why some people object to it, and how it has affected the housing situation and security of tenure in Egypt.

Old Rent: Survival Tactics to Live in the City

As parliament edges closer to liberalising rent control in Egypt (known as Old Rent), the State of Housing 2017 series looks at the problems behind it and possible equitable solutions. 

Egypt Rent ٍStatistics 1986-2017

As part of the BEO’s State of Housing 2017 series, this fact sheet presents a current overview of rent in Egypt

Myths and Facts of Urban Planning in Egypt

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.

The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Electricity

*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 […]

The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Housing

*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 […]

The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Urban Development

*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 […]

The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Waste-water

*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 […]

The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Water

*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 […]

Statistics of Vacant units in Egypt

Table 1: Percentage of vacant units and estimated number of years to fill them This is a theoretical calculation used to show the potential uptake of existing units if they were to be lived in. Calculations are estimated as: Total […]

Population densities in Egypt

 Table 1: Population data, Gross, Inhabited and Built-up Areas by Governorate             Gross area refers to the area of the governorate based on Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) 2015 data. Inhabited area refers to Urban and agricultural land […]

Population Growth Rates in New Cities’

The actual GR for New Cities was calculated as the difference between the 2006 Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) census and an assumed base population at 10% of the target, divided by the number of years between the […]

Population Growth Rate in Egypt

To understand how realistic the population growth rates projected for various projects were, we calculated the most recent actual growth rate per governorate based on census data produced for 1996 and 2006 by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and […]

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