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    State Of Housing

    Betterment Levies – Development Brief

    06 July 2021

    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 ?!

    State Of Housing

    Expropriation Law Amendments – Development Brief

    26 May 2021

    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.

    State Of Housing

    Myths and Facts of Urban Planning in Egypt

    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.

    Population densities in Egypt

    09 November 2016

     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’

    09 November 2016

    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

    09 November 2016

    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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