by Fanny Ohier | Hoqook
It is the story of many informal settlements in Cairo, and informal settlements represent about 75 percent of the Egyptian capital.
Former president Hosni Mubarak had established a urban plan called Cairo 2050, years ago. The housing project set down that all residents in informal neighbourhoods would be expelled, in order to leave the space for other property projects, such as ‘tourism facilities’ on several of Cairo’s islands for example.
So, as many slums’s residents in Cairo, those of Ramlet Boulaq – an informal neighbourhood located about three kilometers north from the famous Tahrir Square, nearby the Nile Corniche – have to fight for the property of their land.