Residents go about their daily routines along the main street of Al-Asmarat housing district in Cairo during golden hour, with warm light casting across rows of yellow mid-rise apartment blocks. A delivery truck is parked along the roadside, laundry hangs from balconies, and satellite dishes line the building facades — all indicators of active daily residential life. The 'Tahya Masr' (Long Live Egypt) slogan is visibly painted on one of the building facades, a hallmark of this government-built social housing development launched under Egypt's national housing initiative.