Providing suitable formal and economic shelter opportunities to curb the growth of informal settlements

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Informal settlements are considered one of the most important urban development problems in Cairo.

It is difficult to control the growth of informal settlements by regulations and laws only, but through understanding the requirements of marginalized groups and their motives for resorting to building in this random pattern.

The study sheds light on the problem of the growth of these areas.

It aims to develop a thesis that achieves a balance between the needs of people with limited income from adequate housing on one hand, and the minimum requirements for an adequate urban and healthy environment on the other.

The study concluded that an officially approved and economic shelter can be provided that commensurate with the actual needs of these groups.

This can be achieved through the idea of taking advantage of the right to share in residential and service courts as a tool to achieve the requirements of building regulations, while minimizing losses in the built up land area.

In this context, an opportunity is provided for an economical alternative that is compatible with building regulations, within official urban areas; hence, there will be no need to build in contravention of building regulations.

This reduces the growth of existing informal settlements and the emergence of new ones.