"The largest single housing project " You have not been to Buru buru (5,000 units before all the extensions and sqs) and Nyayo Embakasi (> 2,000 and counting).

Is the CJ getting one of those or are they still in search?

So the taxpayer is subsidizing the civil servants. Again. Let them pay market rates like the rest of us so they understand our pain.

Its is sooo affordable that its annoying..

Anyone taking a 15year mortgage will only have to pay less than 20k per month...That is cheaper than rent in many places!!

For them to get rates of 5%, there will most likely be a cash backed or govt guaranteed lending. This means that MY & YOUR MONEY will earn 0% so that a fellow who is hardly in the office and is mostly active in his matatu and strikes for pay increase gets a 5% rate......( while I work harder and repay mine at 20% ( this will most likely go up coz the govt has to borrow to keep idle funds in an account somewhere)

Kenyans,we are being Scr****ed more every day....

The best way to do it, is for the civil servant to get a morgage at market related rates according to his/her salary scale & then GoK pays 50% then the other 50% is met by the civil servant...how many civil servants are there? And how many estates of this type are they going to build? The governments role should be more focused on land delivery, if GoK or the CCN could avail more affordable land to property developers then most likely houses in Nairobi could be 50% cheaper.

@rryyzz i totally agree with your point! The sad thing is that there are still very many skeptics of GOK here..

But soon they will be believers..

1) No country became sustainably great based on working for the government. China's ascent started in 1979 AFTER the liberalization [encouragement of the private sector] not due to government jobs or largesse.
2) The civil service in Kenya is too large a % of the total workforce leading to inefficiencies & fiefdoms. The recurrent expenditure out-weighs development expenditure. The latter provides sustainable growth.
3) The self-employed taxpayer NOT the civil servant is the ultimate taxpayer in an economy like Kenya. Kenya has few extractive industries so the 'real income' is from the self-employed esp farmers. Everything else is a derivative.
4) Most civil servants are NOT as hard-working as the self-employed. They open at 9am & close at 5pm. To serve my customers, I will work over lunch, open early & almost always work beyond 5pm. I do not expect a pension, no subsidies, pay VAT, withholding tax, etc. My side hustle is my main hustle. My sick days means no income. My vacation days means no income. My time spent queuing at government offices since the (un)civil 'servant' is having tea, talking on the phone or gossiping means no income.

Which is true but a problem too. At some point who pays taxes? Many European countries lost large portions of the 'wealthy' who opted to move elsewhere for tax purposes. The USA encouraged inward immigration of the 'doers' leading to massive intellectual capital inflows. Singapore is doing the same.

Wivu???? The houses look good to me. They look just like the apartments in Kileleshwa etc only that civil servants will pay 3.2m instead of 16m.