Kenya’s affordable housing drive should not be judged solely by unit counts, but by how long those homes last, how healthy they are to live in, and how affordable they remain to operate.
The critical but often overlooked factor here is workmanship in the finishing trades. Trained applicators and contractors can mean the difference between repainting in three years or 10, a gap that translates into billions of shillings in savings for homeowners, developers, and the state.
