Kibera Residents Move Out of Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme (KENSUP) Houses

Residents in the Kibera area of ​​Nairobi evacuated from the government's Kenyan Slum Upgrade Plan (KENSUP) housing facility due to the expensive commission on mortgage loans

Half of the 821 families have been told that they joined the Soweto A project that baptizes Canaan Estate and returned to the slums one year after receiving the key of the house.

At the beginning of the government's initiative, Julius Odavo confirmed that the original owner chose to sell or rent their unit to keep up with the mortgage.

"It depends on the owner of the house and the person who wants to borrow the house," Odawo clarified and exempted property management responsibility

Real estate has 21 4 to 5 story buildings including bed, one and two bedroom units

For mortgage loans over 25 years, residents need to pay 800,000 Shh in one bedroom, 1 million Shh in one bedroom and $ 13,500 to two bedroom house.

"I handed out a new house to the children, as you can see, they can pay Sh5,000 as a mortgage each month," says 63-year-old immigrant Christopher Kama.

Another Purity Gakii borrowing a one bedroom unit from the original owner said that she paid 16,000 shillings per month - borrowing 15,000 shillings, paying the Sh1,000 service fee

Kibola residents who choose to rent or sell a unit will ultimately receive a housing loan amount three times the mortgage amount observed by Gabriel Muli, a beneficiary of the government program.

"Believe me, people here are not just to rent a house, not only to sell, now it may take 2.5 million shillings for a one bedroom house here.

"So, if a person sells a house that includes a mortgage, the price of the bedroom will reach an amazing 1.3 million," Mully explained.

UN-HABITAT is one of the key partners of the Kenyan Slum Upgrade Program (KENSUP). KENSUP was complemented and supplemented by the United Nations Habitat, initiated by the Government of Kenya (GoK) in 2001 and through a memorandum of understanding and cooperation outlined in the existing project document. The KENSUP project was held in Nairobi, Kisumu, Mawko, Mobasa, Sika. The purpose of this program is to improve the lives of those living and working in the slums of Kenya by providing incumbency, improvement of housing, improvement of income, and physical and social infrastructure. Because the role of the United Nations Habitat in the program is complementary, its activities provide technical advice, strengthening relevant local and community capacity, providing infrastructure, testing of innovative slam upgrade methods through pilots I am concentrating on doing.

In this article I will explain the Kenyan Government 's two initiatives in slum upgrade, the Kenyan slum upgrade program (KENSUP) and Kenya' s informal settlement improvement project (KISIP). It gives the goals, strategies and components of each plan. In this article, I will outline the KENSUP program, the results of the slum upgrade program so far, and the challenges facing slum upgrade in Kenya. Like other countries, Kenya has seen unprecedented growth in urban population over the past 50 years. As urban economies can not cope with the increasing demand for basic services such as housing, health and education, this is a big issue for the urban economy. As a result, more urban dwellers in Kenya live in poverty, live in crowded slums and lack the basic facilities to maintain a minimum standard of living.