Four out of ten Kenyans living in towns want the government to regulate rent to prevent landlords from raising it arbitrarily, amid a revelation that more than a third of households’ spending is on rent alone.
This is based on a new Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) Housing survey, which received responses from a section of rural and urban households in all the 47 counties and extrapolated the results to estimate the national sentiment on rent control and other issues.
