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    "content": "In good housing, you have that opportunity of reducing expenditure in certain aspects of life. Poor housing will enhance disease progression in communities. Tuberculosis is known to be a disease of the poor, especially the people in poor housing situations. The same applies to measles and other diseases. If we had a properly managed housing policy we would reduce our expenditure on the medical aspects that are directly hinged on poor housing and sanitation. Maybe the Tanzanians were right in coming up with the Ujamaa village system, where people were brought to live together so that facilitation on certain amenities would be--- I am not trying to suggest that we go that way, but I think we should move into urban development without necessarily moving to the City. I do not support a Member who said that we should all move to the City. Let us develop the small villages out there to have clean water, housing facilitation, electricity and schools. That way, we will encourage the development of these areas instead of moving everybody to the City, whose facilitation is over-stretched. We cannot afford to have people moving to the City any more. We have to provide good housing to the people in the rural areas. The National Housing Corporation, therefore, should pay attention to the smaller towns and district headquarters that are now being established and enhance development of proper and cheaply available and affordable housing by the people of this country at that level, so that people do not think that if you want to live well you must come to Nairobi. Of course, security is an issue in the village like an hon. Member has said. However, it is time Kenyans policed themselves. We do not have to look for policemen to bring peace to our communities. It is high time we grew from that kind of culture to a culture of development and self policing so that we can develop our farms and proper housing. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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