Housing Policies: Removal and Resettlement of Residents of Unpopulated Areas and Low-Income People in Greater Cairo from 2016 (Al-Asmarat Neighborhood)

Abstract

          Policies for developing slum areas in developing countries have varied to confront the slum housing crisis, and the population removal and resettlement approach is one of these policies. Despite its positive aspects in providing higher-quality housing units, more stable ownership, and exploiting eviction areas in development projects, many experiences indicate that it leads to risks, the most important of which is the destruction of the social and economic structure of the local community. Evaluating one of the recent projects, the Asmarat neighborhood in the city of Mokattam, Egypt, and comparing the results with the dimensions of sustainable urban development, by collecting information, personal interviews with officials and residents, field visits to the project, analyzing this data, and deducing the extent to which the dimensions of sustainable urban development have been achieved in the project. The research concluded that the achievement rate reached 66% and that the project focused primarily on the urban dimension. The research recommends the need to establish the rules of community participation, move from theory to application with modern urban trends such as the idea of ​​flexible urbanism, and implement experimental projects and benefit from them in providing housing for unsafe and low-income housing areas.