Experts want plans for affordable housing moved from the boardrooms to the peopleYou may be forced to hold on for longer to benefit from the affordable housing programme championed by President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government. The government plans to build 1,000,000 homes by 2022, 800,000 of which will be affordable homes while 200,000 will be social housing. Mombasa plans to re-develop all its 11 estates in an ambitious Sh300 billion housing project that will see the construction of 30,000 housing units to resettle people currently living there. “Ideally social housing from government perspective refers to one or two-roomed accommodation in slums or old council estates. “It is a good idea (state funded affordable housing) but it should be fashioned as a PPP,” said Benedict Mutuku, chief executive officer of Goldwyne Consults.

Source: Standard Digital February 16, 2019 21:07 UTC