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Kenya's affordable housing headache

Affordable housing project under construction at Nairobi's Mukuru area, October 3, 2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

When retired president Uhuru Kenyatta took office, he unveiled an elaborate plan to put up 200,000 housing units annually during his tenure. Affordable housing was one of the key pillars of his infamous Big Four Agenda.

However, this never went as planned.

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