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The objective of this study, requested
by the Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development,
is to assist the government of Egypt in: formulating a
coherent national affordable housing strategy which puts in
place an effective institutional and regulatory framework
that creates the necessary conditions for an efficiently
functioning housing market, devises the incentive structure
needed to promote increased private sector participation in
affordable housing supply and the subsidy package to enable
limited-income households to access affordable housing, and
addresses distortions in factor markets; and designing the
foundations and key elements of the national affordable
housing program for Egypt, which aims to enable the delivery
of 500,000 affordable housing units in the coming six years.
This study critically analyzes the existing situation on
housing supply in urban areas in Egypt. This includes
examining existing formal and informal mechanisms for the
supply/ delivery of urban housing in Egypt, institutions
responsible for supply and regulation, the characteristics
of the formal and informal housing stock (supply trends,
prices, construction and factor market costs, etc), and the
institutional and regulatory framework governing urban/ land
use planning and development in Egypt.
