Abstract

Provision of affordable housing remains a key pillar in the achievements of the national strategy vision 2030. Its implementation is however faced by remarkable challenges that include: resistance by the targeted beneficiaries, failure of expected “buy in” by anticipated stakeholders, absence of basic legislation to guide and drive the implementation process, ignorance by majority of the public due to limited stakeholder engagement, lack of required political will and support and corruption among many other emerging issues. Despite the launch of the “affordable housing” program against the registered opposition, the government’s initiative to impose the housing fund levypolicy upon the working class has proved futile. The federation of kenya employers (fke) and the central organization of trade unions (cotu) managed to obtain a court injunction against the government directive. A lot is required to be done to achieve this ambitious project given its social and economic impact.