Abstract
Residential mobility is a key element in a responsive housing market and specifically crucial in countries with limited resources as in Egypt. This chapter discusses the current residential mobility status and patterns in order to help improve the heavily burdened housing market. It seeks to provide a deeper understanding of family life cycle within residential mobility process and the reciprocal influences. It theoretically develops and empirically tests the acceptability of residential mobility in the Egyptian context, enhancing the rents mechanisms and the subsidy policies to ensure the affordability of middle-income housing.
The research (This chapter is derived from Ph.D thesis titled: “Residential Mobility: An Operational Framework for Middle-Income Housing in Egypt”) models residential mobility, using unique survey data that examines specific life-cycle variables to evaluate the concept in the Egyptian housing market as a whole and find out why residential mobility through rental housing became a myth in the Egyptian housing market after it was mainstream for a long time.
The findings suggest that residential mobility through a secured rental housing process could be a popular tool that helps middle-income groups in Egypt to find affordable and appropriate housing units within its life cycle development. This can further diminish the current reliance of this stratum on informal housing as the only affordable, non-preferred, solution.
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According to CAPMAS household expenditure, consumption and income survey of 2012/2013plus the new national housing program (NHP), 2005, and the housing study for urban Egypt (HSUE), 2008.
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Nasr Eldin, R., Khalil, H.A.E., Kamel, R. (2016). Residential Mobility in Egypt; A Must or a Myth. In: Attia, S., Shabka, S., Shafik, Z., Ibrahim, A. (eds) Dynamics and Resilience of Informal Areas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29948-8_13
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