CAIRO – From the roof of the house in which he lives, Mohammed Hassan can see some of central Cairo’s most prized real estate. A five-star hotel sits in the distance to the right, the towering foreign ministry building seems close enough to touch, and the Nile is a straight shot ahead.
The 27-year-old restaurant delivery driver shares the eight-room mud brick home with his mother and three siblings.
And then there’s the seven other families that also live there, each in one of the rooms. All of the at least 70 residents share a toilet that’s basically a hole in the ground.
“You can call this a house, but you can’t say what we’re doing is living,” says Hassan, who makes 900 Egyptian pounds ($150) per month. “I wish I could move out, but I can’t afford it…In Egypt, even dreams are expensive.”
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