Egypt’s President tours Asmarat 3 housing project for 7,440 families inhabiting slums

CAIRO – 12 July 2020: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Sunday has toured the third phase of the Asmarat housing project in Cairo, which aims at providing housing units for those who had inhabited unsafe slums.

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Asmarat 3 in Al-Mokattam district provides fully-furnished 7,440 housing units, each rented for a very low price of LE 350 ($22) per month.

The third phase of the project also includes a football pitch, four multi-purpose playgrounds, two swimming pools, a social building, a garden for children, four nurseries, four health units, a car mark that can hold up to 1,000 cars. Also, a mosque, a church and an automatic bakery production line will be established.

Concerning Asmarat dwellers, 13.6 percent of the families have female breadwinners, 47.7 percent consist of more than four members, and 65 percent have irregular workers, Social Solidarity Minister Nevin Al-Qabbaj said.

Also, 14.5 percent of the families suffer from chronic diseases or disabilities and 33 percent are illiterate.

For his part, Chief of the Armed Forces’ Engineering Authority Ehab El Faar said the authority took part in developing 79 areas in the capital Cairo and the governorates of Giza and Alexandria in the northern part of the country, worth LE 28 billion ($1.75 billion).

Sisi said earlier on Sunday that any citizen who will apply for an apartment will get it, explaining that the Egyptian state stands by its citizens in difficult circumstances.

Sisi added, during the opening of a number of national projects, that despite the difficult circumstances of the Egyptian state, Egypt stood by its people, saying: "it offers an LE 600,000-apartment ($37,506) for the citizen to protect him/her from life in dangerous areas."

Egypt will finish implementing 100,000 housing units during fiscal year of 2020/2021, in addition to planning to finish implementing 105,000 units in 2021/2022, Minister of Finance Mohamed Ma’it said Sunday.