Daunting task of housing, taxing impoverished Kenyans

The hut tax was introduced by the colonial government to force Africans to seek jobs from the settlers. [File, Standard]

Housing! This is the new buzzword. The catchword is 'affordable housing'.

The government has presented this as a panacea to jump-start the economy by constructing 250,000 houses annually for low-income earners, which will in turn provide job opportunities to the unemployed and offer decent homes to slum dwellers.