Across Kenya's North Rift, a government racing against a ceremonial deadline is also racing against a longer history of neglect — of students sleeping in unsafe settlements, of workers without affordable shelter, of markets too informal to protect those who depend on them. The Affordable Housing Programme, backed by forty-five billion shillings in investment across Uasin Gishu and Nandi counties, is being pressed toward completion before President Ruto's Mashujaa Day visit to Eldoret on October 20, with over 8,800 units already delivered nationally and hundreds of thousands more underway. Whet
Kenya races to complete Sh45B housing projects before Mashujaa Day
The programme addresses housing shortages and unsafe living conditions for students previously forced into informal settlements exposed to drug abuse and sexual harassment.