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President Kenyatta is set to preside over the groundbreaking ceremony for 500,000 low-cost houses on December 11th at Parklands, Nairobi.
Housing Principal Secretary Charles Mwaura says the houses will be constructed between 2019 and 2022 at a total cost of Sh1.3 trillion under the affordable housing pillar of President Uhuru's big four agenda.
The Principal Secretary further explains that the units will be categorized into social, low-cost and mortgage gap to fit into each income group.
Social housing units will be sold to Kenyans earning up to Sh14,999, while low-cost houses will be for the group earning between Sh15,000 and 49,999 and mortgage gap will be for those with an income of between Sh50,000-99,999.
Under the social housing category, one-bedroom houses will be sold at Sh600,000, Sh1 million for two-bedroom while a three-bedroom unit will go for Sh1.4 million.
The houses will be spread out across the 47 counties and will be set up on both national and county government land.
Mwaura says the national government and county governments will sign an MoU for delivery of 2,000 housing units every year.
For transparency in allocation of the units, Mwaura says an online portal will be set up where Kenyans will be able to choose the preferred location of their houses among other details.
Some of the criteria to be used in allocation of the units include size of the income, family size, preferred location of home and current assets owned.
“The system is designed to ensure every deserving applicant is allocated a house. However, it is expected that initially there will be significantly more demand than supply of affordable houses. In the event that an applicant is not allocated a house in the initial round of allocation, their names will remain on the waiting list,” says Mwaura.
“Members will provide information on their income and other personal data, after which they will be provided with an e-wallet account into which contributions will be deposited,” he adds.
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Are diasporas eligible to buy?!
Tiga mucang'ang'a maani
Kenyan farmers need to plant maize.
The Chinese government wants to control maize production and distribution in Kenya.
They are the ones calling for the diversification of crops by Kenyan farmers.
China has been building maize milling plants in Kenya and now they are complete they want to bring their own maize from China to mill.
Stop the Chinese.Kenya farmers need to plant maize.
This will the biggest scandal coming up, forget NYS, SGR, LAND,, All MCAs, Senetors, MPigs Will own several houses, and their mothers brothes, aunties.... will have the rest
From Ikulu to Mizizinyasi.
Scam alert!Scam alert!Scam alert!
He couldn't deliver laptops that cost 100K but he promises houses for 600K
This low cost houses should be build by locals in each of the counties and not by foreigners. This government need to provide jobs to locals. Our builders are capable of building cheap housing units. We cannot ask foreignors to build and then ask locals to buy. God give Kenya leaders not politicians. God help Kenya.
I hope some watery mouths are not waiting for the money to drop. They will steal the money and the houses. Unless a miracle happens and angels come down to oversee the project, this venture is DOA (dead on arrival). We have more thieves in the upper echelons of our society than honest men and women. This could be ready money for them to further puff up their already big bellies. Unless Uhuru has a better oversight in mind, this will be a total failure and a big dent on his ambitious legacy.
I hope some watery mouths are not waiting for the money to drop. They will steal the money and the houses. Unless a miracle happens and angels come down to oversee the project, this venture is DOA (dead on arrival). We have more thieves in the upper echelons of our society than honest men and women. This could be ready money for them to further puff up their already big bellies. Unless Uhuru has a better oversight in mind, this will be a total failure and a big dent on his ambitious legacy.
I love the project but all this thi
s will become a reality if this project is taken to the employers, this will become realistic otherwise it will be a project of families and close friend. One thing the government should know other employees are employed every other things Nssf,Nhif,paye are taken care of by the employers but when it comes to paying they don't have the papers to show so please let the government put the information in the paysleep so the houses will benefit kenyans
this initiative should be introduced in employees so that such can be paid through check off system.guidelines should be provided in case of disposal