MycoTile grows mushroom roots to make affordable, eco-friendly panels. Fungi-based materials could help ease Nairobi’s housing shortage. Mycelium panels cost about one-third less than traditional ...

Walk through Nairobi’s Kibera, Mathare, or Mukuru slums and the scale of Kenya’s housing crisis becomes immediately visible. Tens of thousands of families crowd into makeshift iron structures, often ...

Kenya faces a housing deficit running into millions of units, with demand far outstripping supply, particularly in urban centres such as Nairobi. A large proportion of city residents lives in informal ...

By donating advanced broadband and smart ICT equipment to an ICT hub classroom at New Mukuru Primary School, the company is ...

Kenya’s real estate sector continues to demonstrate resilience, contributing nearly 10 per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and attracting sustained investor interest.

In recognition of this, the UK and Kenya co-hosted a two-day symposium on affordable housing and sustainable infrastructure on 21 and 22 May at Strathmore University, supported by the Global ...

Buoyed by significant government investment in the 2021-22 national budget, combined with attractive incentives for private developers, the affordable housing sector in Kenya is well set to provide ...

NAIROBI, May 9 (Reuters) - Kenya's sole specialist mortgage lender Housing Finance will develop a housing project in the next two years to create additional income from properties aimed at low and ...

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has urged African countries to study and adopt Kenya’s Affordable Housing Programme, saying the initiative is a practical model that is already transforming urban ...

President William Ruto has announced a range of development pledges for Northern Kenya, including plans to build an airport in Mandera and fund community and religious infrastructure, as he stepped up ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the opportunities which accrue from application of PPPs in development of down market urban ...

NAIROBI, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Kenya's housing prices rose 5.8 percent in 2010 compared to 0.8 percent growth a year earlier, buoyed by a bulging middle class and healthy economic growth, a property price ...