TOPIC affordable housing
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informal housing • 14 min read
Floods hit Zarayeb garbage collectors the hardest
Basma Mostafa | "It’s difficult to calculate the number of families ... we receive survivors every 5 minutes."
17 March 2020
Townhouse • 16 min read
10 Nabrawy Street, in danger again, points to web of interests behind demolitions
Rowan El Shimi | Why are so many owners of historic buildings in Egypt eager to let their buildings fall? Rowan El Shimi
14 July 2016
affordable housing • 9 min read
Ministry announces more plans to solve Egypt’s urban housing crises
Robert Barron | Egyptian Housing Minister Mostafa Madbuly announced on Sunday that the government will invest LE10 billion
3 January 2016
affordable housing • 9 min read
After weathering the revolution, Egypt’s real estate sector slows
Shahd Essam | For generations, Egyptians have prized real estate as the country’s safest and most desirable investment.
28 October 2015
affordable housing • 15 min read
Egypt’s steep learning curve in national housing projects
Isabel Esterman | A week ago, at least one child was killed when security forces used explosives to demolish apartment
15 April 2014
 
Opinion
Mohamed Gad
Arabtec project not on the house
Millions of Egyptians dream of affordable houses, and so does Arabtec. The United Arab Emitates-based
27 March 2014
 
News
affordable housing • 5 min read
Formal housing increasingly inaccessible as rent control phased out: Built Environment Observatory
22 February 2018
affordable housing • 4 min read
Central Bank amends mortgage finance rules for low earners
29 February 2016
affordable housing • 4 min read
Deal with Arabtec to build one million houses suspended: Local media
1 March 2015
affordable housing • 3 min read
UAE company to cement deal for one million Egyptian homes
19 October 2014
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