Affordable homes plan on — Uhuru

President Uhuru Kenyatta during his Madaraka Day speech at Narok on Saturday. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta says his administration is on course to provide 500,000 affordable homes over the next three years.

In the coming months, Kenyatta will commission projects, including 100,000 units developed by the United Nations Office of Project Services, he said Saturday at a rally to mark the nation’s anniversary of achieving self-rule from the British. Some 12,000 acres of public and privately-owned land has been made available across the country for building homes. East Africa’s largest economy has a housing shortfall of two million homes and only about 26,000 mortgages.