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Housing without people, and people without housing.

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Housing without people, and people without housing.

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About Milad Hanna

Milad Hanna (24 June 1924, Shubra, Cairo – 26 November 2012, Cairo) was an Egyptian civil engineer, professor, parliamentarian, political activist and a prolific writer who "carried the humanist conscience of a multicultural Egypt, united in all its diversity." In addition to teaching and practising as a civil engineer, Hanna was politically active for most of his life, fighting for many causes, chief of which were religious equality for Copts, and access to housing for the poor. Hanna is known for his observation that "there are dwellings without dwellers, and dwellers without dwellings," summing up the situation in 1980s Egypt as there being a large housing crisis even though hundreds of thousands of homes stood vacant, and echoed by experts and housing rights observers for decades.