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Affordable Housing by Government of Kenya
Kusadikika
#1 Posted : Wednesday, August 22, 2018 8:05:00 PM
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Please excuse my ignorance but someone please educate me on how the government is planning to provide affordable housing.

Will they build houses and then rent them so that GOK becomes a landlord?

Will they build houses and sell them?

Will they develop land, as in roads, water, power sewage and then sell plots for people to build houses?

Have the plots of land on which this affordable housing will be constructed been identified?

How affordable are the houses going to be? What price does the GOK hope to provide the houses?

I just got concerned because right now the average mortgage in Kenya is for Ksh. 150,000 per month for 20 years.

Swenani
#2 Posted : Wednesday, August 22, 2018 9:00:10 PM
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Mimi niliskia GOK will,
1. Provide land
2. Put in necessary infrastructure e.g sewage, roads etc
3. The KMRC will provide loans with subsidized interest rates
4. Tax exemption for developers meeting a certain target
If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
Angelica _ann
#3 Posted : Wednesday, August 22, 2018 9:09:11 PM
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Gava is emersed in debt, big 4 is dying pole pole.
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Kusadikika
#4 Posted : Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:00:07 PM
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Swenani wrote:
Mimi niliskia GOK will,
1. Provide land
2. Put in necessary infrastructure e.g sewage, roads etc
3. The KMRC will provide loans with subsidized interest rates
4. Tax exemption for developers meeting a certain target


Asante Swenani. Umesikia fununu za bei?
obiero
#5 Posted : Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:53:34 PM
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Kusadikika wrote:
Swenani wrote:
Mimi niliskia GOK will,
1. Provide land
2. Put in necessary infrastructure e.g sewage, roads etc
3. The KMRC will provide loans with subsidized interest rates
4. Tax exemption for developers meeting a certain target


Asante Swenani. Umesikia fununu za bei?

These are pipe dreams, unless Uncle Sam steps in
COOP, IMH, KQ, MTNU
Fyatu
#6 Posted : Thursday, August 23, 2018 9:19:50 AM
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Kusadikika wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance but someone please educate me on how the government is planning to provide affordable housing.

Will they build houses and then rent them so that GOK becomes a landlord?

Will they build houses and sell them?

Will they develop land, as in roads, water, power sewage and then sell plots for people to build houses?

Have the plots of land on which this affordable housing will be constructed been identified?

How affordable are the houses going to be? What price does the GOK hope to provide the houses?

I just got concerned because right now the average mortgage in Kenya is for Ksh. 150,000 per month for 20 years.



We were told ground breaking will be in May 2018. We are now in August approaching September but not even the construction of a shiny plaque(for mtukufu rais) in the proposed sites has been done. Meanwhile, it has been all kizungu mingi na catwalk by the technocrats responsible for making affordable housing possible.Kenyans are damned. In some countries the government just calls mu-shina and tell them to build complete new cities alafu kesi baadaye...hata kama title deed ya KPA bandari ama JKIA itatumiwa kama collateral pia ni sawa

see LINK

Huko sio tafadhali...sijui pris...sijui mnataka nifanye nini? Wananchi and future generations are suffering and exploited by some landlords from certain ethnicities. Nyumba ni giza, plus hakuna maji, plus hakuna owanja ya watoto...sio boda boda zooming by, sio wines and spirits na umalaya..sio sewage...yawa! The problem of housing in Kenya is even threatening our heritage. Huko stoney Athi and the larger Kajiado wildlife habitats are getting lost by the minute due to our greed for blotis where we intend to build ugly flats like those found in Ruaka, pipeline, mathare north,githurai, mwiki and other slums

The same zeal we built SGR and rendered akina Joho jobless huko Mombasa should be applied in housing and bring sense to some people that if you want to build rentals, build houses that you and your family can live in without msongamano. Kanjo and county government should be cleaned up and get rid of the incompetent planning and urbanization officers who got jobs through nepotism and employ young graduates scatterd all over the nation
Dumb money becomes dumb only when it listens to smart money
Angelica _ann
#7 Posted : Thursday, August 23, 2018 9:29:01 AM
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There is plenty of land in Nairobi. They should start by demolishing these old Eastlando estates & building decent housing.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins - cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later - H Geneen
Swenani
#8 Posted : Thursday, August 23, 2018 10:39:19 AM
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Kusadikika wrote:
Swenani wrote:
Mimi niliskia GOK will,
1. Provide land
2. Put in necessary infrastructure e.g sewage, roads etc
3. The KMRC will provide loans with subsidized interest rates
4. Tax exemption for developers meeting a certain target


Asante Swenani. Umesikia fununu za bei?


Nimeskia ranging from 0.5M-3M

But pia kuna for the wealthy, I heard that 30% of all the buildings will be for people like you who can afford the houses at market rates.
If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
wukan
#9 Posted : Thursday, August 23, 2018 11:13:33 AM
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Swenani wrote:
Kusadikika wrote:
Swenani wrote:
Mimi niliskia GOK will,
1. Provide land
2. Put in necessary infrastructure e.g sewage, roads etc
3. The KMRC will provide loans with subsidized interest rates
4. Tax exemption for developers meeting a certain target


Asante Swenani. Umesikia fununu za bei?


Nimeskia ranging from 0.5M-3M

But pia kuna for the wealthy, I heard that 30% of all the buildings will be for people like you who can afford the houses at market rates.


you do 24 floors to sell at 0.5m per unitd'oh! Unless you are making them korogocho style. Makes sense at around 5-7m. Anything less is building vertical slums. You will be doing 24 floors without working lifts, garbage collection, water pumping. You will end with the US projects where you get mugged on 5th floor on your way to your 13th floor, hookers and junkies all around and cops covering some murder scene.
Fyatu
#10 Posted : Thursday, August 23, 2018 11:35:18 AM
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GK should simply forcefully repossess land for the greater national good. What the technocrats at the concerned ministry keep whining about is just plain procrastination...wanachelewesha wa Kenya.

After repossessing land they can build slums that look lLike this where atleast in case of a fire a single house can burn to the ground without burning other houses and a Kenyan can give directions to relatives from ushago using house number and street name. With proper housing security is improved as well as general welfare.

inawezekana na itawezekana....Alfred Mutua's proverb
Dumb money becomes dumb only when it listens to smart money
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