The Kenyan Constitution enshrines the right to accessible and adequate housing for all citizens.
However, with rapid economic growth and urbanization, the country faces a significant housing shortage, with an annual gap of 250,000 units. The Mukuru mass Housing project, Kenya’s largest, is set to reduce this deficit.
High housing costs have limited access, evidenced by the low number of mortgages – only 30,000 in the entire country.
To address this, the government, through its Affordable Housing Program (AHP), aims to increase housing supply and make mortgages more accessible, targeting a million mortgages. Mukuru AHP is one such initiative, seeking to boost housing supply while offering favourable ownership terms, including affordable monthly payments as low as KES 5,000.
The Mukuru Affordable Mass Housing Program was started in 2022 and is meant to solve the housing needs of thousands of low-income workers and reduce Kenya’s housing deficit crisis. But since the project started about two years ago, like most government mass housing projects within the continent, it has not been fully funded.
This may now be a thing of the past as the Deputy President of Kenya, Kithure Kindiki while inspecting the project assured the media that the project will soon be completed and commissioned.
In a post on X, monitored by Housing TV Africa, Kindiki opined that the mass housing project will provide 13,428 units of houses to Kenyans.
“The transformative impact of decent and affordable housing is best illustrated by the Mukuru Affordable and Social Housing Project.
“Phase one of the Project comprising 13,428 units is almost complete and ready for commissioning. Decent housing affirms the socioeconomic rights envisaged in Article 43 of the Constitution and helps to improve Kenya’s ranking in the human development index globally. He said.
