Purpose: Provision of ٥٠٠٠٠٠ housing units for low-income youth ( ٨٥٠٠٠ units/year).

• Duration: ٦ years.

• Estimated budget: LE ٣٤ billion pounds.

• Starting date: ١/١٠/٢٠٠٥

• Completion date: ٣٠/٩/٢٠١١

• Executing Authority: Ministry of Housing (National Housing

Synopsis

-The National Housing Project is considered to be one of the most important projects to overcome the problem of housing through the provision of adequate and appropriate housing for young people with limited income to provide ٥٠٠ thousand housing units during the period of ٦ years and to solve the housing problem in Egypt, which is one of the biggest problems facing the Egyptian citizen who dreams to have a suitable apartment with a cost matching with his level of income.

- The State has provided direct fund to implement the

national housing project . The State has provided one billion

pounds annually to fund the implementation of housing

units by the sum of ١٥٠٠٠ pounds as unrefundable

grant for every citizen deserving the housing unit .

-The citizen pays ٥٠٠٠ pounds as a down payment of the

unit and then pays a monthly installment (١٦٠ pounds)

increasing by ٧.٥% for ٢٠ years

- National banks (Alahly - Egypt – Development and

Housing) under the supervision of the Central Bank of Egypt

provides ٣٠٠٠٠ pounds as a loan for the unit. Besides, arange of alternatives for funding down payment and monthly installments which suit every citizen.

Project  achievements:
1. 72271 people have booked in the National Housing project  in the new cities (16 cities).
2. A Protocol has been signed to provide the necessary loans to those who will execute the project  with the Central Bank of Egypt and (National Bank of Egypt- Housing and Development Bank  - Misr Bank ) to fund the loan.
3. 6330 acres - enough to carry about 292,781 housing units - have been allocated to investors in new cities so far.
4. A protocol  of 20 thousand rented housing units has been signed with the New Urban Communities Authority.
5. Protocols were signed to provide small housing units  (36 m 2 - 40 m 2) including a protocol to provide 40 thousand units with New Urban Communities Authority in industrial new cities to accommodate factory workers in these cities.
6.  The Scheme of provision plots in " Build your own house" Axis enough for all eligible applicants is about  91736 citizens so far .A citizen can build 2 units (first and second floors) at any time .Therefore , about 183 thousand housing units can be added in the later periods.

Scheme of National Housing Project:Implementation 1 -The axis of ownership of housing units in the new cities:
Total number of applicants  is 72271.
Total number of hatched units is 3192 .
The total number of units that have been allocated but not assigned is 26334 .
Total number of units that are being implemented is 38622 .
The units that have been allocated :
5000 units have been delivered.
4123 units  are under allocation .
2 -The axis of lands in the new cities for investors to build housing units within National Housing Project:
•The  axis of  investors is characterized by allocating land to investors in the new cities to build housing units within the National Housing Project.
• Those units will be marketed under the terms of the National Housing according to the contract.
•The lands that have been allocated are in (6 October - Sheikh Zayed - Tenth of Ramadan - Badr - Alobour - Alshrouk - New Minya - New Sohag - New Borg El Arab - Sadat) for  128 companies with an area of ​​about 6330 acres providing 292781 housing units.
3 – The axis of providing plots with small areas in the new cities " Build your own house:
• Providing plots (150 m 2 for each plot) for young people and low-income category  with the price of 70 pounds per square meter and a total of  10500 pounds of which 10%is down payment and the rest to be paid on seven equal annual installments without benefits and the first installment to be paid after year of receiving the land.a
• The citizen build a housing unit on an area of ​​75 m 2 .The citizen can build two other floors so that the total built-up area ​​ will be 225 m 2 . Architectural , construction, health and electrical drawings are free of charge to citizens.
• The Ministry provides financial support (15000 pounds) to the citizen to be paid as the following:
- Phase I   is 5,000 pounds to be paid  after the completion of excavation and foundations.
- Phase II is 5000 pounds to be paid after the completion of the concrete works of the ground floor .
- Phase III 5000 pounds after the completion of the finishes.
Numbers of the applicants:
• The number of eligible applicants is about 92 thousand citizens.
Providing the land:
• providing approximately 9400 acres in all project cities, covering all the required numbers.
Planning:
•A contract between the Ministry and the Egyptian regional universities as well as the National Center for Housing and Building Research has been signed to carry out planning and infrastructure documents as well as developing new architectural models whereby the citizen build in accordance with the model the ministry chooses in each region of a city.
Services:
• Plans - including zones for services in accordance with planning criteria –have been prepared so that the project areas can be an integrated urban community.
• All required services (educational - religious - Medical - Commercial - sports - etc.) in each area are completed according to the expected increase rates.
Warning:
• Because of the importance of the project, which targeted specific groups of young people and low-income category subsidized by the state in the price of the land, facilities and so that this fund can be given to those who deserve it as well as regarding the legal opinion of Mr. legal advisor to the Minister and Deputy Premier, it has been informed not to deal on this land in the cities of the New Urban Communities Authority except through with the original citizen allotted land (in person) and through the following actions:
• Receiving the land.
• granting licenses.
• Procedures of providing utilities (water - electricity - Exchange --- etc).
• dealing with Housing and Development Bank.
• If the  citizen does not finish building according to the timings specified in the advertisement of the project, namely:
• starting building after 3 months from the date of receiving the land.
• digging, foundations after three months of starting work.
• works of reinforced concrete for the ground  floor are three months after phase (2).
• exterior finishes of the ground floor are three months after e phase (3).
Otherwise, the land will be withdrawn immediately in case of non-compliance to building in any phase.

4- Provision of Small housing units (36m2)for renting to needy citizens

The  project aims at providing small housing units (36m2) in the following cases:

- citizens who cannot afford down payment.

- workers in factories in the new cities.

- Tthese housing units are offered by renting for about 5 years .

- 76 thousand housing units are going to be built . 36 thousand housing units in governorates and 40 thousand in new cities to provide workers in factories and companies  there with  accommodation .

- Protocols have been made to build 44256 housing units in new cities.

 5- Provision of housing units (63m2)for renting in governorates ,new cities and Awqaf Authority in  governorates.

6- (The Family House) units in 6th October City -3020 units.

Advertising in National Newspapers for booking in the project (On Ownership Basis) as the  following:

 First Adv: booking for 63m2 units:

   11/12/2005- 5/1/2006

 2nd Adv: booking for 63m2 units:

23/3/2006-3/8/2006 in 16 new  cities and 21 governorates.

 3rd  Adv: booking for 63m2 units:

   16/8/2006-16/11/2006 in new cities and governorates.

4th Adv: booking for 63m2 units:

 1/2/2007-3/5/2007 in new cities &governorates.

 5th  Adv: booking  for 63m2 units

 14/2/2007 -13/3/2007 in new cities &governorates.

-  Adv for " Build your own house "

Booking for  plots (150m2) for construction of 63m2 housing units (15/1/2007 - 15/2/2007). Number of eligible candidates is 91736.