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Kenya's High Court has lifted orders blocking a Senate committee from investigating a land dispute at Two Rivers Crescent Estate in Kiambu, clearing a son of former intelligence chief James Kanyotu to appear.
Kenya's government says about 10,000 affordable housing units have been completed and 8,000 occupied, with a much larger pipeline still under construction and a revolving financing model under consideration.
Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah has petitioned the High Court to stop a Sh28-million payment by the State Department for Housing and Urban Development while ownership of the contractor Savola Investment Limited remains disputed.
Displaced residents and traders in Laini Saba, Kibra, told a Senate committee that only a fraction of promised houses and stalls have been delivered, with some units still lacking water and sewer connections.
Nairobi County has opened a regularisation amnesty giving property owners with unauthorised developments until December 31 to obtain the required planning approvals.
The Kenya Army has briefed troops at Kahawa Garrison on a newly established Kenya Defence Forces mortgage scheme that aims to give military personnel and their families structured access to affordable homeownership.
Kenya's affordable housing programme absorbed Sh122.2 billion in the 2025-26 financial year but completed and handed over only 1,836 units, the Controller of Budget's latest review shows.
Knight Frank's first-half 2026 Kenya Market Update says buyers are paying a growing premium for developments with substantial landscaped green space, as prime residential sale prices rose 6.2 per cent.
President William Ruto has handed over 220 housing units at the Chepalungu Boma Yangu affordable housing estate in Bomet County, where 99 per cent of the homes have been sold.