Overview

The Egypt Impact Lab (EIL) and the UN-Habitat in Egypt are co-hosting a high-level roundtable to advance evidence-based implementation of Egypt's amended rental law (Law No. 165 of 2025). Focused on the transition from the old rental regime, this event brings together senior officials to address challenges such as tenant displacement, compliance gaps, and administrative bottlenecks, while charting an equitable roadmap for urban housing stability.

Key Objectives

• Share Evidence and Best Practices: Present global and local insights from J-PAL and UN-Habitat on rental regulation, tenant protections, compliance tools, and civil servant capacity-building.
• Tackle Challenges and Opportunities: Discuss barriers (e.g., opaque valuations, enforcement issues) and innovations in tenant welfare, market dynamics, landlord incentives, equity, and spillovers.
• Foster Collaboration: Build networks across government for rigorous impact evaluation, informing policy tweaks in Egypt's rental sector.

Expected Participants

The roundtable will be held in the presence of senior officials from Egypt’s Prime Ministry, the Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities, the Ministry of Finance, the Social Housing Mortgage and Finance Fund, Urban Development Fund, and Habitat for Humanity.

Why It Matters

A proactive, multi-stakeholder dialogue is essential to anticipate implementation bottlenecks, ensure procedural fairness, and build public trust. The Egypt Impact Lab, with its mandate to promote evidence-based policymaking, and UN-Habitat, with its global expertise in sustainable urban development and housing policy, are uniquely positioned to facilitate this crucial conversation. This roundtable is motivated by the need to build a shared understanding of the challenges and to collaboratively design an implementation roadmap that is both effective and equitable.