Govt Reveals Only 2 Out of 78 Affordable Housing Projects Are Complete.

Two years to the promise, only two affordable housing projects are complete with one having been started in 2021 by the former administration. According to the government records, there are currently 78 affordable housing projects in different stages of construction. Of the complete ones, the government has listed Buxton Point Mombasa Affordable Housing Phase 1 as ready for occupation with the units being located in Mvita Constituency. Mombasa has three other incomplete housing projects in Mvita and Changamwe. The second project which has been completed is Bondeni Affordable Housing in Nakuru County which was officially opened for occupation on January 2024. Nakuru boasts of four affordable housing projects. Other projects in the county include Bahati, Karagita and Elburgon affordable housing projects. Nairobi County has seven housing projects which are yet to be completed despite Kenya Kwanza’s commitment to end housing shortage in the capital. The projects are: Bachelors Jeevanjee Estate, Pangani Housing Project, Mukuru Met Site Social Housing, Starehe Affordable Housing, Shauri Moyo A Affordable Housing Project, Kibera Soweto B Social Housing, and Shauri Moyo B Affordable Housing. In Kisumu City, only one housing project has been launched by President Ruto - the Lumumba AHP Project, which remains incomplete. Apart from Affordable Housing Units, the government is also in the process of constructing 146 markets across the country with over 90 per cent of the markets yet to be completed.