<p style="margin:" 0cm="" 0pt;="">The UN’s Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) noted Egypt’s inadequate investment in affordable housing, resulting in a high percentage of the population living in informal settlements that lack adequate infrastructure or basic facilities, while practicing “widespread forced evictions due to the lack of secure tenure.”</p>
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<p style="margin:" 0cm="" 0pt;="">As a remedy, CESCR recommended that the state party take steps to ensure that ownership of houses and land be formally registered, and assist the population in complying with the relevant legal provisions and registry procedures. It noted Egypt’s lack of legal definitions of “adequate housing,” “informal settlements, and “”security of tenure, including with regard to the Egypt 2052 Plan. CESCR also recommended that Egypt ensure that persons affected by forced evictions have access to an adequate remedy, restitution of their property, and compensation, as appropriate, taking into account its covenanted obligations and declaratory law on the subject.</p>
