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Why size of urban residential units has been shrinking

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By Peter Muiruri | Feb 22, 2024

**A photo of a residential apartment within Nairobi's Pipeline Estate.** [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

When John Kagiri moved to his single-room house in Roysambu, Nairobi, it was an upgrade from the hovel in Kangemi's Sodom slum that he previously called home. He had just secured employment as a loader at a nearby supermarket and wanted to reduce the daily commute.

But apart from some aesthetics, the home was no more liveable than his former two-bedroomed wooden house in Kangemi, the room quarters.