The Budget That Keeps Housing Alive: Sh120.2 Billion for Affordable Housing
Every year, when the National Treasury reads the budget, contractors and developers listen for one number. How much is the government actually putting into housing? Not promises. Not policy papers. Actual shillings. In the 2025/26 financial year, that number is Sh120.2 billion allocated to the housing and settlement sector . This is not small. It […]
The 47,000 Units Nobody Is Talking About: Inside Kenya’s Security Forces Housing Programme
While the Affordable Housing Programme dominates headlines and public discourse, a massive institutional housing project has been quietly taking shape across the country. It does not get the same media attention. There are no flashy ground-breaking ceremonies with cabinet secretaries every week. But the numbers are substantial, and the work is real. The government is […]
The Great Dam Build: What 1,250 New Dams Mean for Kenya’s Construction Sector
Here is a number that should stop any civil engineering contractor mid-thought. Fifty large dams. Two hundred medium-sized dams. More than one thousand small dams. That is what the government intends to construct across Kenya under the proposed National Infrastructure Fund . The Cabinet Secretary for Water, Sanitation and Irrigation, Eng. Eric Mugaa, announced the […]