The nature of rental housing in Kenya

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-155

  Mwangi, Isaac Karanja ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c Localizing Agenda 21 Progamme ^*

^d Interin Sec Environ Urban D

^e Matrix Development Consultants

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EID: 5944257547     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1630/095624797101287697     Document Type: Article

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9. See reference 1, page 9.
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11. See reference 10.
12. The most authoritative documentation on the performance of the economy in all sectors including housing is in Economic Survey (ES), Statistical Abstract (SA) and National Development Plan (NDP). ESs and SAs are produced annually whilst NDPs are prepared at five-year intervals except for the 1994-1996 NDP which is a three-year plan.
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17. Communities that previously derived their livelihood from farming now become dependent upon urban local authorities for services whilst their land "opens up" for speculative markets of urban development.
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20. The extra upper floors have additional rental rooms. It is not possible to quantify the added stock of rental accommodation in the present study. A field survey to generate primary statistics might help in this direction.
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23. Permanent houses are built of concrete, quarry stone or bricks with cement floors and corrugated iron or brick tiles for roofs. In this paper, permanent houses do not in any way mean that such houses have met the required building regulations such as provision for requisite sanitation, ventilation, habitable space, accessibility, etc.
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27. The eight blocks initially planned for construction were all completed. All the blocks have four floors; three blocks contain 56 housing units each, two blocks have 28 units each and the other three blocks have 20 units each.
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29. This is a subsidized mortgage.
30. See reference 10.
31. Municipality in the sense of an identified urban or rural community possessing corporate existence.The municipal jurisdiction status of the community, the governing body and its procedures are recognized and treated as such by others, especially government agents and institutions.
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36. Common ownership of courtyards in Umoja II World Bank Housing Project has not worked and this refutes any generalization.
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