Merely 10,666 residential units are ready to rehouse informal housing dwellers in Cairo, coming as part of the state's keenness to become a slum-free country.

Rashid City's El Kassara, one of Beheira's unsafe slums, is having five buildings, comprising 117 housing and nine commercial units, 95% completed, with investments worth EGP 25 mn

The Executive Director of the Slum Development Fund Khaled Siddik has met Riad Radwan, general director of Egypt’s public libraries, to develop a vision for the intellectual development of Egyptians in the slums areas and establish a public library

Cairo University will renovate three slum areas in the Giza governorate in an effort to support residents in these areas and offer public services as per the approval of University Dean Gaber Nassar, Invest-Gate reports.

The Slum Development Fund will launch 7,000 residential units in the Manshiyet Nasr district in Cairo, over an area of 140 acres, in efforts to replace unsafe slums

The Slum Development Fund signed two agreements worth EGP 57 million to develop slums in Gharbeya and Dakahlia governorates.

The second phase of developing the Sahaba Project was launched in the presence of Ahmed Adel Darwish, Vice Minister of Housing and Development of Urban Slums and Magdi Fouad Hejazi, Governor of Aswan.

The slum development fund allocated EGP 470 million for the development of dangerous districts in Southern Sinai and Port Said.

As part of the government’s bid to revamp informal settlements in Cairo, the Slum Development Fund is currently working on the development project of Tal Al Aqareb area in Al Sayeda Zeinab.

A new urban development project is due to be built in Al Salam district, east Cairo on the Belbeis Road over a 200 acre area. The project is a collaboration between the Slum Development Fund and the Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design Program at Ain Shams University.