Nairobi City County receives 26 bids for redevelopment of old housing estates

NAIROBI, KENYA:  The more than Sh300 billion Urban Renewal and Re-development of old housing project by Nairobi City County government has received 26 bids.

Says Lands and Housing County Executive Tom Patrick Odongo  “This project which is projected to give Nairobi a major face-lift closed on July 17, 2015. The firms that qualify at the Expression Of Interest (EOI) stage will be issued with Request For Proposal (RFP) documents whose evaluation is expected to be completed by end of November. Thereafter we will announce the winner who will then be awarded the project construction which is set to commence in January 2016.”

The NCCG recently placed a tender in the local dailies for the development of 100,000 new housing units and renovation of existing homes.  The new housing units will house approximately 650,000 residents, with the plan to renovate the existing homes currently on existing estates, the county government collects rent from 14,000 housing units (developed in these areas through a joint venture approach)— some dilapidated. 

Several regions in Nairobi City County have already been identified for the construction of the new houses. This redevelopment project will ride on the back of a County Comprehensive Urban Renewal Programme (ECURP). 

Says CECM Tom Odongo “It is in this spirit that seven quick win projects have been identified to serve as pilots to the ECURP.

These are Old and New Ngara, Pangani, Jeevanjee/ Bachelors, Ngong Road Inspectorate staff quarters, Uhuru and Suna Road. Other ageing estates targeted are Bahati, Mbotela, Ziwani, Makongeni, Kaloleni, Jericho and Shauri Moyo, which will be demolished and redeveloped to accommodate more home buyers. 

No current residents will need to move from where they live while construction takes place. We would like to once again reassure current residents that they will be able to buy or rent a new unit when they are built at a concessionary rate, which will improve their quality of living immeasurably. 

The county government will get into Joint Venture (JV) initiatives with other partners to fund the project and be able to address the housing shortfall in Nairobi City County.”