Episode 91: A Roadmap to Affordable Housing

March 7, 2019 Brenda Wambui Comments 2 comments

As part of its Big Four Agenda, the Jubilee government aims to focus on the provision of affordable housing units to be bought on mortgage by formally employed Kenyans. In the 2018/2019 budget, affordable housing received a provision KES 6.5 billion. By 2022, the government aims to have constructed 500,000 affordable housing units, with four types being available. The housing projects have been divided into five lots, with one lot covered in each financial year. Each lot is then broken down into flagship projects, flagship social housing projects, counties and towns and Nairobi County projects.

We’re joined by Njeri Cerere, a Planning, Development and Environmental Consultant, and the co-convenor of Naipolitans, to discuss a roadmap to affordable housing in Kenya. Press play!

Resources

Kenya economic update : housing – unavailable and unaffordable

Kenya 1999 Population and Housing Census: Analytical Report On Housing Conditions and Social Amenities – Volume X

Road To Affordable Housing Agenda, Health For All, Now Clear

State of Housing in Kenya: Will Government Strategy Deliver on Social Housing

How feasible is the Housing component of Kenya’s Big Four Agenda?

The Home Ownership Survey – January 2015

The KPDA Affordable Housing Report, June 2018

The 500, 000 Affordable Housing Program – Project Delivery and Finance Framework, May 2018

Kenya Affordable Housing Programme – Development Framework Guidelines – Release Version, Oct 2018

Housing Policy as an Agenda for Elections 2017

Nairobi 1948 Master Plan “A Plan for a Colonial Capital”