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Egypt's Housing Crisis - The Shaping of Urban Space (Hardcover)
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Egypt's Housing Crisis - The Shaping of Urban Space (Hardcover)
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A provocative analysis of the roots of Egypt's housing crisis and
the ways in which it can be tackled Along with football and
religion, housing is a fundamental cornerstone of Egyptian life: it
can make or break marriage proposals, invigorate or slow down the
economy, and popularize or embarrass a ruler. Housing is political.
Almost every Egyptian ruler over the last eighty years has directly
associated himself with at least one large-scale housing project.
It is also big business, with Egypt currently the world leader in
per capita housing production, building at almost double China's
rate, and creating a housing surplus that counts in the millions of
units. Despite this, Egypt has been in the grip of a housing crisis
for almost eight decades. From the 1940s onward, officials deployed
a number of policies to create adequate housing for the country's
growing population. By the 1970s, housing production had
outstripped population growth, but today half of Egypt's one
hundred million people cannot afford a decent home. Egypt's Housing
Crisis takes presidential speeches, parliamentary reports,
legislation, and official statistics as the basis with which to
investigate the tools that officials have used to 'solve' the
housing crisis--rent control, social housing, and amnesties for
informal self-building--as well as the inescapable reality of these
policies' outcomes. Yahia Shawkat argues that wars, mass
displacement, and rural-urban migration played a part in creating
the problem early on, but that neoliberal deregulation, crony
capitalism and corruption, and neglectful planning have made things
steadily worse ever since. In the final analysis he asks, is
affordable housing for all really that hard to achieve?
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