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How Kenya's informal workers hold the key to unlocking the housing market

Kibera affordable housing project in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

If population is used as the basis for estimating Kenya’s housing demand - which has always been the case with the government - the potential market is undoubtedly vast.

But once this population is broken down into effective demand, it shrinks. It dwindles even further when qualified demand becomes the criterion.

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