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Unanswered questions in the new affordable housing law

President William Ruto lays a foundation stone for the construction of the Talai Affordable Housing Project in Kericho County. [PCS]

The lack of a definition of who a person is in the Affordable Housing Act, 2024, is among the key gaps legal practitioners have detailed in the new law that still does not sit well with Kenyans owing to numerous court battles.

Such gaps, including the unclear modalities of how the taxman is supposed to collect this levy from the informal sector, poke more holes in the Act that is already being contested in courts.

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