This book examines Greater Cairo’s housing access and vacancy, suburban gated communities and resettlement sites, particularly in New Cairo City. The empirical research investigates the complex reasons for the failure of various policies (Greater Cairo Region Master Plan, New Settlements schemes, New Towns) in meeting housing needs of the urban poor, focusing especially on inner city tomb dwellers (Cities of the Dead) and on Zabaleen garbage collectors. The new settlement housing proved to be too expensive for the urban poor, thus eventually attracting speculators rather than residents. This has resulted in the emergence of nearly empty New Towns, and the increasing fortification of the affluent nouveaux riche within exclusive desert condominiums and gated communities. These communities are regarded as fortresses of leisure, consumption and socio-spatial segregation in the context of global (golf) tourism and real estate marketing, a phenomenon that aggravated social injustice and housing inequality. A stakeholder approach is proposed which would involve grass-roots co-operation between urban poor population, local NGOs, urban planners and official authorities to resolve the phenomenon of ‘dwellings without dwellers and dwellers without dwellings’ which are to be found in practically all districts of Greater Cairo.