Why village landlords remain poor despite big investments

High-rise buildings towering against rural old-town houses in Mombasa County. May 2019. [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard] 

Landlords in some of Kenya’s far-flung towns may have expected to more than double their earnings from house rents when infrastructure transformed their areas.

However, it has proven a hard undertaking. In many rural places, despite new power connections and better road networks, the rents remain relatively unchanged.