The 7th Arab Housing Conference concludes activities in Cairo with outputs including raising awareness of 20-minute cities and rehabilitating low-income homes, Invest-Gate reports.

Attendants of the meeting, including experts, delegates of Arab countries, and Arab, international, and UN institutions and agencies, discuss a series of outputs, First Housing Ministry Undersecretary and Head of the Housing and Utilities Sector, Nafisa Hashem, reveals.

Hashem notes that key outputs are incentivizing the private sector to invest in projects that promote sustainability, adopting the right to decent housing, and application of climate-change recommendations.

Outputs also include rehabilitation of low-income homes and supporting health, education, and security to guarantee a better life for citizens, she adds.

Hashem unveils that the conference’s output encompasses setting an institutional framework among ministries to coordinate efforts for the transformation towards smart cities.

Outputs incorporate devising a map for digital transformation through a national-level strategy, the top official unveils.

It is worth noting that the 7th Arab Housing Conference was hosted in Egypt with the rubric “Towards Smart Sustainable Cities that Achieve Quality of Life” between 18 and 20 December on the sidelines of the 39th session of the Council of Arab Ministers of Housing and Reconstruction (CAMHR).