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Messy planners ruin posh suburbs exclusive status

The young, the educated, and the princely of the fast-growing middle class who stream back to urban centres are driving up rents in posh areas’ apartments - giving rise to new patterns of gentrification.

Recent Kenya Population and Housing Census data shows that the wealthy who live in Lang’ata and Westlands have rented apartments and in own homes. Lang’ata hosts some of the most popular estates in Nairobi, including Karen and South C.

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