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Could this be the answer to housing shortage?

If the Ministry of Housing is to be believed, Kenya needs to build 200,000 new homes every year just to meet demand, yet only 35,000 are constructed annually.

This means that at current rates, there will likely be a major housing crisis in urban areas in the next decade, based on population growth and rural-urban migration trends.

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