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Classification of Housing Type and Tenure in the 1995/1996 HIECS
TYPE TENURE
1. One apartment 1. Ordinary Rent
2. More than one 2. Furnished Rent
apartment
3. Villa 3. Owned
4. Country (rural) 4. Purchased
house
5. One or more 5. Gift
independent rooms
6. One separate room 6. In kind
or more
7. Non-traditional 7. Other
hOllsing
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Under TYPE, a villa was taken to mean a classic older house in an
urban setting. The difference between 5. and 6. is as follows: Households
occupying one or more independent rooms in a dwelling may be sharing the
dwelling with other households and occupying non-contiguous space. Other
times there are separate rooms in an apartment or house (for example, on the
roof), and the household will take up one or more of these. One or more
separate rooms are usually inhabited as part of the housing structure.
Non-traditional housing captures the squatters, the homeless, people living in
cemeteries and tents.
Under TENURE, the codes are hardly changed from the 1990/1991 survey
but the results surely have. Ordinary renters make regular rent payments
and are always responsible for their own maintenance (painting, wallpapering,
ceramic or alumetal purchases, plumbing, electrical outlets and bulbs, etc.) and
utilities (electricity and water). The age of the tenants rather than the age
of the structure provides a better indicator of whether the rent is ordinary
or furnished. Furnished rent tenureship is associated with those needing
contracts to rent a furnished apartment. Before Law No.4, landlords could
raise rents on furnished apartments a) annually, for year-length contracts, b)
when the present tenant vacated the dwelling, and c) if the contract was
recent, and so stipulated a different rent increase schedule. In the process
of changing the law, furnished renters realized that having a contract became
a liability if rents could be liberalized merely with the existence of a contract.
Contracts, and therefore, furnished renters, became very scarce very quickly.
The new law explains the lack of furnished renters. Abrogating a contract
means taking a case to an already overwhelmed judicial system.
Another interesting feature of tenureship in Egypt is the provision of
"in kind" rent. In kind payments can make up an substantial share of public
sector employee wages, but Table IV.2 shows a precipitous drop in the
practice from 1990/1991. Most of the employees who receive in kind rent pay
nothing for their housing, about 10% of employees have some money taken out
of their salaries for rent, and a nominal number of in-kind tenants pay a very