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This study aims at exploring a possible solution to the problem of housing in Egypt, with special emphasis on the two phenomena of “Compartments without Residents & Residents without Compartments” and Freezing habitable lands”. The paper proposes an “Idle property tax” as an alternative to Real Estate Tax” in the way solving the housing problem. It analyzes the causes of the problem and the main themes of treatment for both Islamic and secular perspectives. Because the State was the originator of the problem, the paper proposes that the solution must also come for the State. This involves the liberalization of housing and property markets watched with an appropriate change in the system of litigation in Egypt, coupled by a comprehensive legal reform. This should include an outward expansion to the boundaries of cities and villages, based on a uniform criterion, in addition to the proposed “idle property tax”. The State has to adopt a mix of policies, for example, an exclusive policy of law income housing as against luxurious buildings, transforming tourists resorts into habitable cities through an increase in public utility services, as well as the extermination of corruption.
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