The Housing Deficit That Won’t Go Away: 2 Million Units and Counting
For all the cranes in Nairobi, for all the new apartment blocks rising in Kiambu, for all the Affordable Housing Programme announcements, one stubborn fact remains. Kenya does not have enough homes. The numbers are stark. The country faces a housing deficit running into millions of units. In Nairobi alone, more than half the population […]
The Affordable Housing Rollout: What Sh5.4 Billion in Kakamega Tells Us About Where Work Is Going
For years, Kenya’s Affordable Housing Programme existed mostly in press releases and policy documents. You heard about targets. You heard about ambitions. But if you were a builder on the ground, it was hard to point to a site and say, “That is where the work is.” That has changed. In 2026, the Affordable Housing […]