President William Ruto’s administration has set an ambitious target of constructing at least 200,000 homes annually and one million units by 2027, in its quest to address the housing shortage in the country, where nearly 60 per cent of urban households live in slums, according to the World Bank.
There are approximately 2.5 million slum dwellers in about 200 settlements in the city, where the government owns all the land.
The government is developing the projects backed by the housing fund collected from a 1.5 per cent deduction from an employee’s gross salary and a matching contribution from their employer, making it three per cent.
