Qurna recently has been partly evicted an demolished, as published by AL-AHRAM Weekly Online, Cairo:

"The Supreme Council of Antiquities has achieved its goal. It has evicted what it regards as squatters
(in fact 10,000 long- standing residents) from an area known as Sheikh Abdel-Qurna, one of Luxor's
most important archaeological sites, where they lived over and among the tombs of the nobles. Apart
from a few of the most decorative and brightly-decorated mud-brick houses, most of the homes belonging
to the people, known as Qurnawis, have been demolished."

(published in Issue No. 883, 7 - 13 February 2008)