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A few days ago I came across an advert for home ownership. There are reasons why housing interests me to such an extent that I feel the sector is full of contrasts.
Real estate has become one of the most attention-grabbing phenomena in Kenya, yet mortgages remain out of the reach of most people. Inversely though, I came across an article in the paper which stated that since its launch in 2013, the invitation for bids to investors and developers to build low-cost housing for civil servants failed with abysmal uptake.
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