Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine el-Qabbag chaired a meeting on Monday to review programmes to transfer residents from slum areas.
Representatives from the ministries of health, housing and education attended the meeting.
The government has made tremendous effort to resolve the issue of slums nationwide, the minister said, calling on the authorities concerned to take immediate action on investment in human resources in the developed areas.
There are around 357 unsafe areas nationwide, the minister told the meeting, during which discussions covered social services plans for the development of unsafe areas, to be converted into developed integrated complexes.
Some 322 slum areas have been developed as part of the country’s plan to eliminate slum areas and replace them with new housing units, according to a recent press release by the Urban Development Fund.
Egypt is taking great strides to be declared slum-free, after hazardous, unplanned housing has been spreading for decades, el-Qabbag said.
Since 2014, the government has built 250,000 housing units at a cost of LE63 billion to relocate slum dwellers.
