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Affordable housing creates opportunities despite hurdles

President Uhuru Kenyatta tours housing projects in Ngara and Pangani neighbourhoods, Nairobi. June 30, 2020. [PSCU]

In Kenya, the right to housing is embedded in the constitution, which provides that “Every person has the right to accessible and adequate housing, and to reasonable standards of sanitation.”

At the start of his second term in 2018, President Uhuru Kenyatta launched an affordable housing programme as one of the big four agenda pillars to promote long-term economic development.

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