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The Egyptian residents who live there were already forced to sell their land once, for $4800 USD per acre. Now, they are being displaced again, with no compensation to benefit of foreigners and Egypt's richest families, Talaat Moustafa Group, Orascom (owned by the Sawiris family), and references to Egyptian businessman Mahmoud El-Gamal (father of Khadija El-Gamal, the wife of Gamal Mubarak)
https://zawia3.com/en/hekma/
Specifically, this is how Sisi steals from the poor to benefit the uber rich and elites he so enjoys. Transparency is what Egypt needs - not backroom deals favoring billionaires.
About Ras Hekma:
“Ras Al-Hekma” is a village affiliated with the city of Marsa Matrouh in the Matrouh Governorate. According to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in 2023, the governorate’s population is approximately 538,546 citizens. However, official reports do not specify the population of Ras Al-Hikma. According to interviews conducted by “Zawia3,” the estimated population is around 25,000 indigenous residents, in addition to a few thousand from neighboring provinces and villages in Alexandria and Matrouh who engage in permanent or seasonal agricultural or tourism activities.
Cowichan the US did the same after buying New Mexico, then disenfranchising the Indians in many states paying a pittance , because they could, they otherwise could have killed them all.
Which many wanted to do, the only good Indian is a dead un. ;-)
The UK is no different,its called compulsary purchase orders, then sold to property developers which means they make millions. Or Billions,.
Cowichan should have a look at the "Pathfinder"scheme. Home owners in poorer areas were compulsory purchased at a knock down price to enable developers to make a profit. The name may have changed but it still goes on in poorer areas that they want to "gentrify"
Found it ,
The Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder Programme Abstract
The Housing Market Renewal (HMR) Pathfinder programme was the most ambitious and controversial area-based housing initiative launched by the UK government over the past 30 years. It was introduced as a means of supporting radical intervention in 'weaker' housing markets, based predominantly in the North of England. The programme, launched in 2003, was assailed by criticisms from the outset. An unlikely alliance of heritage lobbyists and critical urban theorists condemned HMR plans to 'modernize' local housing markets as an exercise in state-sponsored gentrification, displacing working-class households in the search for more attractive 'new urbanists'. HMR programme included demolition of existing homes, partly to modify the structure of local housing supply. Elsewhere many fairly conventional housing improvement schemes were implemented, sustained by an additional £2 billion of government investment. The HMR programme was curtailed peremptorily in 2010 by the Coalition government, partly justified by reference to the earlier critiques. This paper considers the criticisms made of HMR, and suggests that overall the programme made modest improvements to the housing stock in the Pathfinder areas but inevitably fell short in reviving local housing markets, especially since the 2008 recession. The prospects for any future housing-based area regeneration programme in England being developed along the lines of HMR now seem bleak indeed.
https://shura.shu.ac.uk/11325/
i'll give it a read, thx
Hi Paul then of course there is the disastrous HS2 project,a money printing exercise for the big UK civil engineering contactors who give a tender price and even though initially a contingency sum is agreed they have no intention of abIding by it because they know they have the government over a barrel and that the ministers wont challenge them!
All that wasted money would have been better spent reinstating many of the old branch lines for commuting cross country and locally easily .
Also some of these funds could have been used to sort out the problems in the NHS and our other public services, possibly even restoring some of the funding to local councils which has been systematically cut since 2008.
https://www.countrylife.co.uk/news/the-hopeless-mess-left-behind-by-hs2-compulsory-purchase-orders-260650
Parliament granted HS2 Ltd a compulsory purchase order in June 2018, meaning it could forcibly buy properties out from under owners if they stood on the route
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/hs2-completes-phase-one-land-acquisition-as-compulsory-purchase-powers-expire-23-02-2022/