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Housing cooperatives hold key to affordable homes dream

Mavoko Park Syokimau on 20th June 2016. (Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard)

The housing situation in Kenya is deplorable. Only 16 per cent of Kenyan households in urban areas own the houses they live in, while the majority at 84 per cent rent. About 61 per cent of the urban dwellers live in slums.

Such are the statistics that have necessitated the intervention of the national government, which plans to deliver 500,000 decent and affordable housing by 2022.

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