The housing crisis in Egypt is considered as a major obstacle confronts the development. In the past 30 years, the government policies still incapable to solve the housing crisis, in spite of reduction of the population growth rate lately. The questions raised here: are there proper policies that could manage such crisis? And if there are any, what are the execution mechanisms for those policies? And why are not effective?
In the same time, the real estate market is suffering from stagnancy, which put the market in conflict. Is there a housing problem or stagnancy problem? Apparently, those are two opposite standings!
Such conflict points out the incapability of consecutive housing policies toward a solution for housing problems. In other words, there is no proper plan that matches the problem importance.
This paper suggests that the housing policies are not directed toward an effective solution for the mentioned housing crisis.
Therefore, the paper suggests a strategy that manages the housing crisis in Egypt through a thorough evaluation for the consecutive housing policies and extracts the advantages and disadvantages of mentioned policies.
The paper adopted an analytical and comparative method for the housing policies through the last 30 years and evaluates the results to suggest the proper methods and mechanisms that help coming over the housing crisis.
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