Why subscribe?
The Housing Policy Tracker is a monthly round up of key housing, land, and urban policy developments in Egypt. Bulletins are based on our team’s expert methodology citing official primary sources as far as possible to summarise the complex and ever evolving decision making landscape for urban experts, scholars, and journalists with a focus on:
Tenure and legalization policies and legislative development with issues such as rent, informal housing, mortgage, registration, and expropriation.
Progress of large-scale urban redevelopment projects in Cairo, the North Coast and elsewhere.
Major project and policy developments in the real estate sector and new cities, especially the involvement of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as NUCA.
Readers also gain access to additional resources such as:
Relevant interlinks to our News Archive that contains almost 16,000 tagged articles from 2012 onwards.
Interlinks to our online Legal Archive with recent legislation.
Updates on relevant official statistics and market reports.
Since 2015, the Built Environment Observatory (BEO), has provided open-access housing strategies, spatial analysis, data-driven advocacy, and shaped policy recommendations for communities in Egypt at a critical time of social, political, and climatic transformation.
Subscribe to get full access to our monthly Housing Policy Tracker and publication archives. We currently offer a range of subscriptions to cover different needs:
Curious individual with a casual interest? Then please take out a monthly or better, an annual subscription.
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Supporters of the BEO beyond the Policy Tracker? Then we direct you to the annual Hero subscription with the amount you see fit.
Ideas and Comments
The Housing Policy Tracker is a work in progress, and hopes to plug knowledge needs across a diverse audience. Please send us any comments or suggestions for new topics through the app or to b.e.observatory@proton.me
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