Housing the poor in Kenya

September 21, 2012
Ankur Sohanpal

In Kenya the reality is quite different from what is stated in the Kenyan Constitution, which makes proper housing and accompanying adequate sanitation a right for Kenyan citizens. Some 64 per cent people in Nairobi lived in cramped, unhygienic slums, vulnerable to theft and violence, while paying rents to landlords with ‘dubious’ ownership claims. Read more here. The reason why low-cost housing market has not developed in Nairobi so far is because the developers focus on upper income classes. Read more here.



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