Why youth should look to counties for dream homes

High property prices in major towns and failure by developers to focus on the lower market segment where most new income earners are found have left young people with limited options.

Olivia Sandra, 25, lives in a one-bedroom house in Embakasi, Nairobi, with her husband and their daughter. They pay Sh14,000 in rent.

Sandra, who is expecting the couple’s second child, does not wish to be a tenant for the rest of her life. When Home & Away met her last week at a homes expo in Nairobi, she was collecting brochures from different stands, which she would add to her growing list of ‘home’ collections.