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With the expansion of official policy in establishing new communities all over Egypt, and not just the canal region, a Ministry of Reconstruction and New communities was spun off in 1978, [5] in addition to a Ministry of State for Housing, as well as keeping the Ministry of Housing, though the Ministry of State was scrapped within a year. [6]
Efforts to address housing inequity date back by a century at least, ranging from designing model villages, to rent control, and building public and cooperative housing. Since the 1980s, housing policy in Egypt has focused on what was termed the 'housing shortage', [5] a quantitative estimate of needed homes, to be solved by almost solely by ...
The GOPP works on preparing national plans, regional plans, strategic masterplans for cities, as well as urban plans for towns and villages across the country. [6]It has produced a series of masterplans for Greater Cairo, including the infamous Cairo 2050/2052 plan, [7] [8] that faced immediate criticism for its top-down mandates delivered as megaprojects that promised to displace large ...
The New Urban Communities Authority (Arabic: هيئة المجتمعات العمرانية الجديدة) is an Egyptian state owned enterprise (SOE) established in 1979 and affiliated to the Ministry of Housing. [1]
Act No. 495 was issued on 23 September 1954 to establish the Institute for building researches in Egypt as an independent organization. In 1971, decision number 1871 was issued from the Prime Minister stating the affiliation of the Institute to the Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development.
The ministry's goals are to decentralize power and to provide employment for youth and women especially. [4]Their projects include decreasing illiteracy in Egypt, improving public services, generating more civic engagement, preparing local leaders, and in unison with other ministries, providing the land for the building of new housing units.
In 1952 Egypt’s private sector accounted for 76 percent of economic investment. Following the nationalization plans carried out by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the effort to build a post-independence socialist state, this percentage drastically shifted within a few decades to government investment accounting for over 80 percent of economic investment. [1]
It was announced by the then Egyptian housing minister Mostafa Madbouly at the Egypt Economic Development Conference on 13 March 2015. [4] The capital city is considered one of the projects for economic development, and is part of a larger initiative called Egypt Vision 2030. [5] The new capital of Egypt has yet to be given a name.