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    "id": 1378031,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1378031/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "THAT, Clause 2 of the Bill be amended— (c) in subclause (1)— (v) by deleting the definition “affordable housing” and substituting therefor the following new definition— “affordable housing” means housing that comprises a minimum two habitable rooms, separate cooking area and sanitary facilities and whose cost of acquisition or market rent payable is not more than ten times the annual mean income or thirty percent of monthly income of the residents in the county in which the housing is to be constructed; (vi) by deleting the definition “Levy”; (vii) by inserting the following definition in its proper alphabetical sequence— “scheme” means the National House Saving Scheme established under section 4; (d) by deleting subclause (2). This is to align the definition of affordable housing as provided for in the Sessional Paper of the National Housing Policy (2003), to align with the national best practices, United Nations (UN) Habitat and the rest on how we define affordable housing. For avoidance of doubt, I am proposing that we replace and say: “affordable housing” means housing that comprises a minimum two habitable rooms, separate cooking area and sanitary facilities and whose cost of acquisition or market rent payable is not more than ten times the annual mean income or thirty per cent of monthly income of the residents in the county in which the housing is to be constructed.” We borrow this from the international best practices, literature, and the classical definition of the UN Habitat. This is just to expand what already exists here to incorporate the new terminologies of determining affordable housing."
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