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    "content": "regard, preparation of development plans, advertising and registration is in process in a bid to safeguard Government properties against alienation. Further, we are also undertaking security fencing for all Government houses for the same purpose. On the area of refurbishment, the Ministry has refurbished a total of 5,796 houses across the country and the Rent Restriction Tribunal offices in six regions of Kisumu, Mombasa, Nakuru, Embu, Nairobi and Nyeri have been refurbished including upgrading of some residential houses to accommodate District Commissioners in the newly created districts. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am happy to announce that the Ministry, over the said period, has realized great improvement on rent collection from Government houses. Over the period, we have raised a total of Kshs1.4 billion. This is mainly due to improved conditions of our Government houses and hence increased occupancy which enhanced rent collection modalities. With regard to the Slum Upgrading and Informal Settlement Programme, my Ministry is at various levels in terms of improving the livelihood of people living and working in slum areas. These include completion of 17 blocks of five storeys high, comprising 600 three-roomed houses at Kibera decamping site, which is now complete. We are putting up another 400 housing units with one primary school, a nursery school, social hall, a market centre, a health centre and a police station in Mavoko, Athi River. The project is at 53 per cent completion level. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, development and rehabilitation of eight social infrastructure facilities in Kisumu and Mombasa are now complete. We have 13 housing cooperatives formed in slum areas, mainly Kibera. We are constructing 0.5 access road in Kibera which is almost complete. Finally, under the Housing Policy and Dissemination of Appropriate Building Technology, the Ministry has finalized and presented to Treasury housing incentives proposals. We have also finalized the Draft Housing Bill (2008) that has been submitted to the Cabinet for approval. During the year under review, 2009/2010 Financial Year, our resource allocation under Recurrent Expenditure is Kshs921 million against our scaled-down resource requirement of Kshs1 billion leading to a funding gap of Kshs106 million. With this shortfall, the areas that will experience insufficient funding include Building Code Committee operations which was not provided for and routine maintenance of residential buildings. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in order to cater for the expenditure under the Recurrent Vote, given the close provision of Kshs1.8 billion, the Ministry intends to apply the allocated resources in the following priority areas:- (i) Personal emoluments, (ii) Operation and maintenance, (iii) Routine maintenance and refurbishment, (iv) Grant to Civil Servants Housing Scheme Fund, (v) Construction of civil servants houses, (vi) Loans for civil servants; and, (vii) Subscriptions to international organizations. Out of this amount of Kshs1.8 billion, Kshs936 million will be by way of Appropriation-in-Aid (A-in-A)."
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