A plan to develop the area and exploit the lands of Ezbet Khairallah that have been removed for use in health, education, and sports projects is to start 1 September, according to Khaled Abdel Aziz, a member of the parliament’s Housing Committee. Abdel Aziz said that the displaced tenants of Ezbet Khairallah—an informal housing area—are being resettled in Al Asmarat City. He noted that this procedure is for the homes of the fourth level of high-risk houses in the plan to develop the slums, which includes houses built on the edges of the mountains and below, such as Ezbet Khairallah, including the area’s most dangerous and unsafe places. Ezbet Khairallah is an unplanned area that lacks basic infrastructure in Cairo’s Dar El-Salam and Old Cairo neighbourhoods. The Egyptian government provided housing units in the new Al Asmarat City for tenants of slums in Doweqa and Ezbet Khairallah to save them from being killed in case any part of Moqattam collapsed, as has happened in previous years.

Source: Daily News Egypt July 10, 2017 08:03 UTC