$2.55 billion drive boosts hopes of Egypt's slum dwellers
CAIRO: The bill for eliminating slums in Egypt will be 40 billion Egyptian pounds ($2.55 billion), and the completion of the scheme will be celebrated on Wednesday, Director of the Slum Development Fund Khaled Siddik has announced. Siddik said that 357 areas and 1,105 markets had been identified for redevelopment, and construction of the last 45,000 housing units would be completed within two months. The fund director said that 21 percent of the residents of the Maspero Triangle had elected to ...
Source: arabnews.com