Prime Min. inspects Ruwaisat slum development project

CAIRO – 2 October 2018: Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly inspected on Monday the first phase of the Ruwaisat area development project in Sharm El-Sheikh, in line with projects launched by Egypt to develop slum areas.

During his inspection, Madbouly listened to the first phase’s details, which will inaugurate in the upcoming period, and the housing units will be submitted to residents after infrastructure and roads works are completed at the end of October.

The first phase includes 31 buildings and 496 housing units, with all the facilities and service estimated at LE 141 million, while the second phase holds 37 buildings and 624 housing units estimated as LE 317 million.

In May 2016, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi promised to move all those living in slums to new flats over three years, under an ambitious project expected costing about LE 14 billion ($790 million).

Under the same context, the Tahya Misr (Long Live Egypt) Fund, launched by Sisi in 2014, has been working on a three-phase strategy to eliminate Egypt’s shantytowns and re-house slum residents, including those living in Doueyka, Establ Antar and Ezbet Khair Allah. The project includes 15,000 housing units to re-house 60,000 slum residents. The first two phases of Tahya Misr are comprised of 12,000 flats. The third phase opened in 2017 and is comprised of 20,000 flats.

Al Mahrousa 1 and 2 projects

The government has completed construction of 90 percent of Al-Mahrousa 1 and 2 projects, which includes 4,900 housing units. Al-Mahrousa 1 is comprised of 3,175 units, while Al-Mahrousa 2 boasts 1,594 units.

Al-Asmarat 3 project

At the beginning of 2017, the third district of the housing project in Al-Asmarat, Moqattam, was built, comprising 7,440 housing units. The project is constructed by the Tahya Misr Fund, in collaboration with the Armed Forces Engineering Authority.

Together to develop slums in Al-Salam 2 project

The project includes 3,312 housing units, which are built in collaboration with the Slum Development Fund.

Maspero Triangle project

Major General Mohammed Ayman Abdel Tawab, Cairo’s deputy governor, said the government has been demolishing houses and shops in the Maspero Triangle in an attempt to redevelop and modernize the three streets of the Bulaq Abul Ela district.