Egypt , a country in the grips of a life-threatening housing crisis , announced a glitzy new evolution this week — and it ’s a reversion either to Vegas or to ancient Egypt . Or maybe a small second of both .
The Cairo Postreports on a new development called the Zayed Crystal Spark : A 656 - pes - grandiloquent ice Pyramids of Egypt palisade by a observation pool and put down through a smaller , more squat pyramid at its base . The enormous glass tug will house “ administrative , commercial and amusement ” programs inside , according to Egypt ’s Minister of Housing Moustafa Madbouly , who will pose the architectural plan in greater detail during an economic conference this month .
The pillar will be the in high spirits in the country , overshadow the ancient pyramids — which are only a few miles away — by almost 200 groundwork . It ’ll also be one of the largest , sit on a block that add up 8,589,600 satisfying foot .
Meanwhile , Egypt is dealing with a massive housing crisis . The Middle East Institutereports that18 percent family in Egypt hold out in undivided - room trapping , while there ’s a shortfall of 3.5 million unit of measurement across the nation . Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statisticstold Al Monitorthat there are up to 20 million people living in “ informal ” dwellings , which often lack water and electricity .
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The problem is n’t that housing does n’t exist , though : It ’s that it ’s too expensive for most people . The Middle East Institute ’s Maria Golia point outthat there are as many as 6 million vacant housing units that are just too expensive for the average person . Before he was elected , president Abdel - Fattah al - Sisi said the government would build1 million building block of housingfor modest income young person , at a cost of $ 40 billion , a task that has not yet happen .
What has resulted is a immense illegal industriousness devoted to building “ unlicensed ” housing for middle- to low - income Egyptians , say Golia :
No one has succeeded in tackling this problem more direct than the Egyptian people themselves . While the SHP produce 50,000 units between 2012 and 2014 , informal ( unaccredited ) housing in Egypt ’s ashwa’iyyat ( unplanned areas ) increase by at least two million flats in that same period . peculiarly since 2011 , in the absence seizure of state supervision , structure of loose housing has increased to such an extent that licensed developers have encountered shortages of construction materials for their project .
AP Photo / Maya Alleruzzo
So while Egypt ’s trapping government minister is kick upstairs a billion - clam schema for a luxury pyramid , a shadow industry has emerge to gather the need of average Egyptians . It ’s a dynamic that ’s easy to bump trace of in other land , albeitunder wildly dissimilar circumstances — the Brobdingnagian gulf between government - endorse hyper - luxuriousness flagships and the make - due housing of the other half .
[ The Middle East Institute;Cairo Post;Hyperallergic ]
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