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Public land question in affordable housing
It does not surprise that the affordable housing project by the national government is at least beginning to deliver tangible results, while several projects by Nairobi County are still stuck.
Under the affordable housing programme, we have adopted a model of allowing county governments to dole out public land to special purpose vehicles (SPVs) co-owned with private developers.
It seems to me that we did not consider the issue of the capacity of our county governments to negotiate competently, to ensure that rights over public land is not transferred to private developers under the guise of affordable housing projects.
