URBAN PROGRAMS STRATEGIC URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND CITIES AND C LIMATE C HANGE MAPPING OF RELEVANT INSTITUTIONS AND CENTERS OF COMPETENCE
New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA) Category: Urban development agencies and operators
Country: Egypt
Director: M. Ashraf Mahmoud, Deputy Director Contact: 1 Ismail Abaza St. Kasr ELaini-Cairo Tel: (202) 7921442 - 7921441 - 7921440 Fax: (202) 7921423 Email: infocenter@mhousing.gov.eg Website: www.urban-comm.gov.eg Missions: The NUCA is part of the Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban development whose purposes are: Creation of new civilized centers, achieving community stability and economic prosperity. Redistribution of population far from Nile Delta narrow stripe. Establishment of new attraction areas outside the existing cities and villages. Curbing the urban infringement upon cultivated areas. To achieve the Goals of Urban Development Strategy NUCA’s missions are the following: Planning and completion of 22 new cities on the latest planning systems. Land buying price was of the actual basic infrastructure cost so as to be the nucleus for investment attraction and offering various privileges for investors (custom and tax exemptions). NUCA had confirmed the provision, in the first hand, of cost effective housing units for low income groups with healthy and good environment (Mobark and Mostakbal Housing Projects). For more subsidies for low income groups, NUCA issued other projects with appropriate facilities. Preparation of Development Map of ARE till 2017, for locating the optimum areas for the new urban when communities, their priorities through new development axes, on which 44 communities shall be developed with different economic bases, subject to the physical and economic capabilities of each one and their generated job opportunities. Relevance to the CMI urban programs: UD1— Urban expansion and renewal; Urban land management; Urban planning Date of entry: June 2010