A main road cuts through Eldoret, the commercial centre of Uasin Gishu County. The county says 220 affordable homes are planned for Soi sub-county. Photo: Shadychiri/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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220 Affordable Homes to Transform Lives in Uasin Gishu’s Soi Sub-County.
Nairobi – The Kidiwa Affordable Housing Project in Soi Sub-County, Uasin Gishu County, is transforming lives long before the first residents receive the keys to its 220 housing units. Beyond providing decent and affordable homes, the development has become a catalyst for employment, skills development and economic empowerment for the surrounding community.
Background
Kenya's affordable housing programme is funded by a levy on gross income and delivered through county-level projects, with units allocated through the Boma Yangu platform. The recurring questions about the programme are not about whether houses get built but about who ends up in them: whether allocation is transparent, whether the monthly repayment is genuinely within reach of the income group the scheme names, and whether the supporting infrastructure, water, sewerage and roads, arrives at the same time as the buildings.
Why it matters here
Kibra is the place where the answer matters most and the delivery is hardest. The county's biggest housing need is here, and the history of upgrading schemes in Kibra, from Soweto East onwards, is a history of units built and then occupied by people other than those displaced. Every project elsewhere in the country is therefore useful evidence about whether the allocation system works before it is applied to a settlement where the stakes are highest.
What to watch next
How the units are allocated and to whom, what the monthly repayment works out at, and whether water and sewer connections are completed alongside the buildings.
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Nairobi — The Kidiwa Affordable Housing Project in Soi Sub-County, Uasin Gishu County, is transforming lives long before the first residents receive the keys to its 220 housing units. Beyond providing decent and affordable homes, the development has become a catalyst for employment, skills development and economic empowerment for the surrounding community.
Background
Kenya’s affordable housing programme is funded by a levy on gross income and delivered through county-level projects, with units allocated through the Boma Yangu platform. The recurring questions about the programme are not about whether houses get built but about who ends up in them: whether allocation is transparent, whether the monthly repayment is genuinely within reach of the income group the scheme names, and whether the supporting infrastructure, water, sewerage and roads, arrives at the same time as the buildings.
Why it matters here
Kibra is the place where the answer matters most and the delivery is hardest. The county’s biggest housing need is here, and the history of upgrading schemes in Kibra, from Soweto East onwards, is a history of units built and then occupied by people other than those displaced. Every project elsewhere in the country is therefore useful evidence about whether the allocation system works before it is applied to a settlement where the stakes are highest.
What to watch next
How the units are allocated and to whom, what the monthly repayment works out at, and whether water and sewer connections are completed alongside the buildings.
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