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As housing is considered one of the necessities of life, providing housing for society members makes them more eager to perform their roles efficiently, which leads to achieve the development. It helps reduce unemployment, poverty, divorce and spinsterhood rates, and slums and consequently, reduce crime and theft rates. There are also many bad effects that result from the lack of housing, such as building on agricultural lands, building without license in addition to the vibrations of social peace, moral decline, class hatred and lack of low compliance. Therefore, countries work to provide adequate housing, especially for the low-income class. In Egypt social housing programs are considered one of the most important tools used to overcome the housing problem in light of the continuous increasing in population and highly unemployment, inflation and poverty rates and spread of slums. Then this paper aims to evaluate the experiences of Egypt in providing social housing units in view of last two programs “National Housing Program and Social Housing Program in order to measure the success of social housing policy in providing housing for the low-income class. Policymakers should have the interest to observe the outcomes and recommendations of this study for optimal policy planning.