Prof   Dr   ALY RAAFAT 2من اصل3

Other categories of housing were for the high and middle class levels of the
Bourgeosie .These were given units of two to three bedrooms and a hall in Cairo,
Alex. till Aswan. Companies cooperating in public and private sectors were
entrusted to build these different levels of housing. New cities were built
dependent on Cairo such as 10th of Ramadan, 6th of October Sadat city &
&New Cairo, They raised on public land with governorates working as land
merchants and auctioneers not developers. Towers & compounds raised in big
cities and suburbs adding to Cairo housing & traffic problems. Government
employees became the lowest income groups with professionals creating a new
group with high personal incomes. Emigrants to the gulf started coming back
shifting to higher income status and asking for special type of palaces. Renting
units were replaced by ownershop « Tamleeck ) with prices going higher & higher,
New Cairo which was designed as ten Cairo service industrial cities turned to be
dependent rich saberbs . Slums in mother cities increased in number and
decreased in quality. Cooperative building activities that prevailed in the turn of
the century disappeared due to administrative bureaucratic restrictions on
movements as a result of irregularities by few cooperatives.