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Implications from Recent Experience of an Incremental Housing Project in Egypt

Ahmed M. Shalaby (Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt)

Open House International

ISSN: 0168-2601

Article publication date: 1 December 2014

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Abstract

The urban population in the developing world will double by the year 2030 increasing the pressure in the housing sector that already suffers from the lack of adequate and affordable housing. Egypt, similar to most countries in the developing world, witnesses a huge deficit in the housing units needed for low-income groups. Since the mid Nineteen Seventies, the Egyptian government adopted and implemented a variety of low-cost housing development strategies including: site and services schemes, core housing projects, partially completed housing units in apartment blocks, and totally finished housing projects. The huge informal housing sector in Egypt has proved the ability of the low-income groups to build for their own-selves. Thus, the incremental housing approach was one of the approaches that were adopted by the Egyptian government to solve the housing problem. Ebny Baitak or “Build Your House” is an incremental housing approach and one of the approaches undertaken by the Ministry of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Development within the National Housing Program to solve the housing problems of low-income groups in Egypt. This paper discusses the recent Egyptian experience in encouraging the participation of low-income groups in the construction process of their own houses through an incremental housing program “Ebny Baitak project”. The paper also derives the implications that could be learned from this experience towards better application in the future.

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Shalaby, A.M. (2014), "Implications from Recent Experience of an Incremental Housing Project in Egypt", Open House International, Vol. 39 No. 4, pp. 78-90. https://doi.org/10.1108/OHI-04-2014-B0008

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