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URBAN DEVELOPMENT

3. Toilet shared or outside the structure.

4. Bath Shared or outside the structure.
5. More than 2 persons per habitable room.

6. Less than 4 meters square of sleeping area.
7. Lake of installed electricity.

8. Rooms lacking windows.
9. Lake of dual egress.

10. Serious deterioration.

Problems of slum areas:

 High rates of poverty and unemployment.

 Are breeding centers for many social problems such as crime,

recreational drugs, and alcoholism.

 In many poor countries they are also breeding centers for

disease due to unsanitary conditions.

 In many slums, people live in very narrow alleys that do not

allow vehicles (like ambulances and fire trucks) to pass.

 The lack of services such as routine garbage collection.

 The lack of infrastructure and poor planning on the parts of

government officials.

 Many slum dwellers make up the informal economy. This can

include street vending, drug dealing, domestic work, and
prostitution.

Since January 2015, the ministry has launched a campaign to

remove violations detected by the government on the Nile banks.

the government take firm actions against building violations, the

lawbreakers will be referred to the military prosecution under the
emergency law.

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