دراسة لمدى قدرة مشاريع الإسكان في المدن الجديدة لجذب سكان فئة متوسطي الدخل : دراسة حالة عن مدينة القاهرة الجديدة

Abstract EN

One of the most pressing issues confronting developing countries is their ability to provide affordable housing to middle and lower-income groups.

This issue affects Egypt because of its economic challenges as well as the increasing population growth rate, and it manifest primarily in the middle class category, which is the largest segment of the population whose economic capabilities do not reach the material well-being of the upper class to obtain the housing units they desire.

The middle class also has more aspirations than the low-income group to obtain adequate housing, and is highly dependent on its income compared to the low-income group that dependents largely on government support.

The development of new cities is considered one of the potential solutions to the housing problem in general and to the middle class in particular.

This article, accordingly, examines the housing sector at the outset by describing the housing situation in Egypt as well as the gap between the supply and demand in the real estate market.

It then identifies the middle class socially and economically and the capabilities and needs of this population group.

The article then explores different assessment criteria for the middle housing systems adopted from the Egyptian ministry of housing and utilities in cooperation with the United Nations office in Egypt and apply these indicators to four housing projects in the New Cairo city (the largest city around the larger region of Cairo).

These projects represents the main agents responsible for providing housing units in Egypt including the government, private, and cooperative sectors.

The assessment indicators were divided into four criteria (schematic and architectural, economic, social, administrative and organizational) and it was found that the proximity rate to the overall average of these criteria did not exceed an average of sixty percent for all the four projects indicating an apparent imbalance in the middle-class housing market.

This shortage appears in factors - rather than the quantity of available units - which affects the functioning of the housing market.

The article concludes by highlighting the gap between what is implemented on the ground and what is actually needed for the middle class group, and hence the extraction of recommendations to avoid these gaps.