A Kenyan engineer has developed a way to build low-cost housing from a commonly discarded material, creating more than 100 jobs in the process. The Female Quotient (@femalequotient), a business ...

Over half (52.8%) of Kenyan homes were built through one-off construction projects, while 27.0% were constructed incrementally and only 2.5% of homes were purchased as completed units, underscoring ...

Over 13 million Kenyans are unaware of the Affordable Housing Program, touted as one of President William Ruto's legacy ...

This evidence is presented in the Housing Strategic Plan of 2008-2013 that indicates the housing sector in Kenya is deficient ... only 35,000 units are produced. For low income households ...

The Kenya Economic Update: Housing—Unavailable and Unaffordable, attributes the slowdown in economic activity to weak credit growth, the ongoing drought, and rising global oil prices. “While Kenya is ...

[iStockphoto] Although the structures in rural areas could be of very low quality ... to reduce the cost of housing by 40 per cent," he says. A Maasai manyatta, Rift Valley, Kenya.

Kenya’s homeownership rate declined ... the country’s total population, and where the housing crisis is worst. Mombasa follows Nairobi in low home ownership rate, at 24 percent, followed ...