Egypt finalises 20,000 homes in Badr City for state employees

Egypt’s Administrative Capital for Urban Development (ACUD) says it has completed building 20,000 housing units in Badr City, northeast of Cairo, to relocate state employees there.

“It is scheduled to relocate the state headquarters to the ministerial district in the new capital within 2021,” ACUD’s public relations manager Khaled Al-Husseini said on Tuesday.

The state-owned ACUD has succeeded in developing 50 percent of a new residential district in Badr City nearby the new capital, Al-Husseini added. The units will be offered at affordable prices for the state employees, he said.

ACUD is the owner and developer for the new capital project, which is located 45km (28 miles) east of Cairo of on a total area of 170,000 feddans.

The state-owned company’s shareholders; Egyptian government’s New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA), National Service Products Organization (NSPO), and Armed Forces National Lands Projects Agency.

The under-construction new capital city is part of the Egyptian government’s plan to expand urban areas to deal with the state’s rapid population growth and improve the nation’s infrastructure.

The new city is set to be a 270-square-mile hub with 21 residential districts to accommodate five million people. It will feature 1,250 mosques and churches as well as 5,000-seat conference centre, nearly 2,000 schools and colleges, over 600 medical facilities, and a park that is projected to be the world’s largest.