How to apply for a Sakan Lekol El Masreyeen 9 rental flat
Applications for 15,000 rental flats from the Social Housing Fund close on Wednesday 28 October. Here is who can apply, what it costs and how.
The Social Housing and Mortgage Finance Fund is offering 15,000 flats for rent to low-income families under the presidential initiative Sakan Lekol El Masreyeen 9: 8,464 in governorates including Cairo and Giza, 3,256 in new cities and 3,280 already built under Hayah Karima. Around Cairo, the new city units are in New October, 15 May, New Obour and Hadayek El Asema. The Fund pays up to 100,000 pounds in rent support over the lease, depending on income and flat size. These are the steps as the Housing Ministry set them out.
Check the age rule
you must be at least 21 and no older than 35 on the closing date.
Check the income rule
the family's net income from all sources must be no more than 16,000 pounds a month.
Pick one scheme
you cannot apply for these rental flats and for the New Urban Communities Authority's separate rent-to-own flats at the same time.
Create an account on the Digital Egypt platform, digital.gov.eg. Applications are accepted only there.
Download the booklet and pay the registration fee
365 pounds, not refundable, through the platform's own payment methods.
Pay the deposit
10,000 pounds per flat, at an automated post office in the city or governorate where the flats are. It is returned at the end of the lease, or if your application is rejected, under the booklet's terms.
Enter your details and upload the documents the booklet asks for on the platform before Wednesday 28 October 2026.
The ministry has not published rent amounts, and the full document list is in the booklet. Checked on the Housing Ministry website on 11 October 2026.