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Dashed hopes as cheap houses allocated to State employees

Boma Yangu Government Affordable Houses in Ngara Nairobi. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The affordable housing projects currently underway will mostly benefit government employees, dashing the hopes of many of owning homes under the programme - at least in the short term.

A memo by the Ministry of Housing to civil servants invited them to start buying some of the houses that are set for completion in the course of this year.

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