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The Houseboats in Egypt
Houseboat owners say they would be happy to get permits, but the government stopped renewing them two years ago. The story is that the boats don't have permits, and so they might be unsafe en the government wants to remove them for public safety. And the government sees this as a piece of prime real estate, of course, right along the banks of the nile. That gets at a bigger trend in egypt. It has done lots of construction up and down the country.
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