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Sh122 billion spent on affordable housing, 1,836 units handed over.
The affordable housing programme spent Sh122.18 billion in the year to June 2026 – almost every shilling it was given – and handed over 1,836 finished units.
The figures come from the Controller of Budget's report on the national budget. Sh120.18 billion of the money went to construction and Sh2 billion to running costs, an absorption rate of 99 per cent against a Sh124 billion allocation.
The programme had aimed to be 52 per cent of the way through 217,654 units by June. It reached 24.5 per cent. Another 1,380 units are substantially complete and waiting to be handed over, 103,251 are under construction and 65,649 are at early stages.
Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang'o put the shortfall down to slow implementation, with several projects still at different stages of construction and preparation.
Since the programme started in July 2018 it has taken Sh188.36 billion and is about 15 per cent complete against a plan worth Sh1.758 trillion that runs to 2032. The social housing arm, meant for the lowest earners, has delivered 4,536 units against a target of 80,909.
It is that social housing figure that matters most in places like Kibra, where the programme was pitched as a way out of renting a single room.
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The affordable housing programme spent Sh122.18 billion in the year to June 2026 — almost every shilling it was given — and handed over 1,836 finished units.
The figures come from the Controller of Budget’s report on the national budget. Sh120.18 billion of the money went to construction and Sh2 billion to running costs, an absorption rate of 99 per cent against a Sh124 billion allocation.
The programme had aimed to be 52 per cent of the way through 217,654 units by June. It reached 24.5 per cent. Another 1,380 units are substantially complete and waiting to be handed over, 103,251 are under construction and 65,649 are at early stages.
Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o put the shortfall down to slow implementation, with several projects still at different stages of construction and preparation.
Since the programme started in July 2018 it has taken Sh188.36 billion and is about 15 per cent complete against a plan worth Sh1.758 trillion that runs to 2032. The social housing arm, meant for the lowest earners, has delivered 4,536 units against a target of 80,909.
It is that social housing figure that matters most in places like Kibra, where the programme was pitched as a way out of renting a single room.
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