The Right to Housing 1: Informal Areas & Community Organisation is a part one of a mini series on self Organized communities in Egypt. The video is in Arabic but it have an English Subtitles
Sources of information mentioned in the video :
43.5% of housing units in Egypt are not connected to sanitation
Mahadaltaktit National / United Nations for Development, Egypt Human Development Report 0.2010
2% of urban housing units by structural cracks About 6% of urban households use common toilets About 4.5% of urban households live in units of one-room
USAID Housing Study for Urban Egypt, 2008
Semi-formal sector (Almkrobasat) provides about 35% of the needs of transportation in Cairo.
UNDP Sustainable Transport for Egypt, 2008
The rate of drop of water in Cairo for a day or more: 37%
UN-Habitat & The American University in Cairo, Cairo, a city in transition, 2011
Wastage in the water system at the level of the Republic: 50% Egyptian Centre for Housing Rights, disaster drinking water 0.2007
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