Remodeling informality into sustainable housing prototype: Alexandria case, Egypt

This paper discusses the availability or lack of affordable land plots for the lowest-income segment of the society. The paper then considers the proposal of a sustainable structural prototype housing unit that can be designed to fulfill the needs of low-income residents who can’t afford to employ workers to build their homes, hence build by themselves without the necessary skills. If the government adopted this prototype, it would control the spread of slums and enhance land management and administration.