Co-founder and head of the Housing Policy Unit

Yahia Shawkat is a housing strategist and policy-analyst. He is co-founder of the 10 Tooba research studio, and director of its Housing Policy Unit/ Built Environment Observatory, that works on equitable housing and spatial policies and advocacy. There he has produced reports on real estate market transparency, the social governance of SOEs, and legal awareness campaigns, among others. Yahia has written widely, including Egypt’s Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space (AUC Press, 2020), which traces a social and statistical history of rental, self-built and mass housing, and co-edited Nashtari kul shay’ (We Buy Everything), (Dar al-Maraya, 2022), while his op-eds have appeared in Al-Manassa, Mada Masr, TIMEP and others.

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