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Inside Nairobi's Eastlands first affordable housing project

The project site comprises two parcels of land

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by MAUREEN KINYANJUI

Big-read01 February 2023 - 15:54
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In Summary


  • President William Ruto plans to deliver 200,000 affordable housing units annually to Kenyans.
  • Last Friday, he presided over the groundbreaking of the Shauri Moyo affordable housing project in Nairobi.

Under the National Development Plan, Vision 2030, the government had targeted to provide 200,000 housing units annually for all income levels.

With only 50,000 new housing units supplied every year, Kenya faces a shortage of about two million housing units.

Most of the housing units are built by the private sector, with 80 per cent targeting the high-end market and only two per cent for the middle-income population.

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