Mimi niliskia GOK will,
1. Provide land
2. Put in necessary infrastructure e.g sewage, roads etc
3. The KMRC will provide loans with subsidized interest rates
4. Tax exemption for developers meeting a certain target

Asante Swenani. Umesikia fununu za bei?

We were told ground breaking will be in May 2018. We are now in August approaching September but not even the construction of a shiny plaque(for mtukufu rais) in the proposed sites has been done. Meanwhile, it has been all kizungu mingi na catwalk by the technocrats responsible for making affordable housing possible.Kenyans are damned. In some countries the government just calls mu-shina and tell them to build complete new cities alafu kesi baadaye...hata kama title deed ya KPA bandari ama JKIA itatumiwa kama collateral pia ni sawa

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Huko sio tafadhali...sijui pris...sijui mnataka nifanye nini? Wananchi and future generations are suffering and exploited by some landlords from certain ethnicities. Nyumba ni giza, plus hakuna maji, plus hakuna owanja ya watoto...sio boda boda zooming by, sio wines and spirits na umalaya..sio sewage...yawa! The problem of housing in Kenya is even threatening our heritage. Huko stoney Athi and the larger Kajiado wildlife habitats are getting lost by the minute due to our greed for blotis where we intend to build ugly flats like those found in Ruaka, pipeline, mathare north,githurai, mwiki and other slums

The same zeal we built SGR and rendered akina Joho jobless huko Mombasa should be applied in housing and bring sense to some people that if you want to build rentals, build houses that you and your family can live in without msongamano. Kanjo and county government should be cleaned up and get rid of the incompetent planning and urbanization officers who got jobs through nepotism and employ young graduates scatterd all over the nation

Nimeskia ranging from 0.5M-3M

But pia kuna for the wealthy, I heard that 30% of all the buildings will be for people like you who can afford the houses at market rates.

GK should simply forcefully repossess land for the greater national good. What the technocrats at the concerned ministry keep whining about is just plain procrastination...wanachelewesha wa Kenya.

After repossessing land they can build slums that look lLike this where atleast in case of a fire a single house can burn to the ground without burning other houses and a Kenyan can give directions to relatives from ushago using house number and street name. With proper housing security is improved as well as general welfare.

inawezekana na itawezekana....Alfred Mutua's proverb

"Mnataka nifanye nini sasa?"

Govt can always take over any land provided it compensates. There is plenty of empty land in Nairobi even in high end neighborhoods. The first housing pilot is on 5000 acres in Mavoko owned by GoK. Of course public procurement procedures is delaying the projects.

The slum upgrading you are proposing was tried out disastrously in Mathare 4A. Slum upgrading should be simple 4-5 floors either well connected to public transport nodes or sandwiched in higher income neighborhoods. In Kileleshwa there are some decent slums areas which can be upgraded to social housing. Another area was the deep sea slums(parklands) which could have easily be upgraded into decent social housing.

The problem is see in Nairobi is this horrible concept of concentrating poor people in one area. It does not help them escape their poverty. They need access to income to start improving their livelihoods. That income comes from the poor providing goods and services to higher income areas. All the Eastlands(ofafa, Marish, Jeri) were colonial slum upgrading initiatives. The end product has been poverty trickling down the generations.

Why construct in Nairobi? Why not Kajiado Kisumu Kakamega? We should be moving out of Nairobi. And govt should not construct but enable investors to provide affordable housing. We cannot rely fully on socialism a bigger % of the population is unemployed

If you look at a Google Earth snapshop of Nairobi the one thing that stands out as far as space is concerned is the Nairobi National Park. 30,000 acres. The other is some desert looking area East and South East of the Ruai Sewage treatment plant. I do not know whether this is part of the infamous Embakasi Ranching Company land but there is a few tens of thousands of acres of empty space there.

The answer to the housing problem lies in the alchemy of the people.

Only when each individual takes up the responsibility of ennobling his/her self will we have dignifying houses and an optimal environment for flourish.