Nairobi’s urban poor may see their hopes of owning affordable houses remain out of reach, following a new report that indicates most units in the city are controlled by private developers. The Nairobi County Assembly’s Land Committee surveyed two major projects—Jevanjee and Pangani—and uncover...
On Nov. 27, the affordable housing project in Kenya of China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) held the "Witness Happiness" Cloud Open Day event. Abdi Ismail, Architect of the Park Road Affordable housing in Nairobi, led us to visit the Kenyan government's first affordable housi...
NAIROBI, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Kenya plans to partner with the private sector in order to construct more affordable houses, an official said on Wednesday. Paul Maringa, principal secretary in the ministry of transport, housing, urban development and infrastructure, told a construction forum in Nai...
Homeownership in Kenya has been a farce for most people due to highly varying interest rates and houses priced beyond the reach of most in the formal and informal sectors. This is why the recently renewed impetus by the government to build 20,000 affordable houses ...
Nairobi – Kenya plans to partner with the World Bank to increase supply of affordable houses, Charles Mwaura, the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, said on Friday. This handout photograph released by The Presidential Service Communication Unit ...
22 % of Kenyans stay in towns and the inhabitants in these cities continue to grow at the rate of 4.2 % annually. This growth rate has outstripped the supply of housing units built. For instance, Nairobi needs a minimum of 120,000 new houses per annually to satisfy the demand but a ...
While the government has made commendable progress in driving housing supply, accelerating this needs encouraging the use of alternative building materials to lower construction costs and thus achieve affordable houses; reviewing the public-private partnership framework to enhance effe...
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World Cities Report 2022: Envisaging the Future of Cities; United Nations Human Settlements Programme: Nairobi, Kenya, 2022; pp. 41–44. [Google Scholar] Founoun, A.; Hayar, A. Evaluation of the concept of the smart city through local regulation and the importance of local initiative. In ...
various extraordinary programs have been developed for social housing through the involvement of non-governmental organizations. According to Bahammam et al. [12], the housing objectives within the Saudi Vision 2030 can be classified into three goals: enabling Saudi families to own houses, developing...