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Kibera affordable housing project in Nairobi. [File, Standard]
If population is used as the basis for estimating Kenya’s housing demand - which has always been the case with the government - the potential market is undoubtedly vast.
But once this population is broken down into effective demand, it shrinks. It dwindles even further when qualified demand becomes the criterion.
Kenya’s housing shortage is estimated at two million units. Successive regimes have not been able to crack this demand, even with the current 1.5 per cent housing levy imposed on workers.
