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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chute",
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        "legal_name": "Chute Mohamed Said",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to also contribute to this Affordable Housing Bill (National Assembly Bills No.75 of 2023). As a keen Member of this committee and now a strong supporter of this Bill, I want to say that sometime back we had before our committee a group of former tenants of Buxton Estate. They brought a Petition before this House and the major problem they brought before the committee was one, unaffordability of those houses, two, unaffordability of the finances. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am proud today to say and thank my committee Members that we have amended a lot of things based on the experience we had through what Buxton tenants brought before us. With your kind indulgence, sometime last year when we had this Petition, the committee recommended that the former tenants should be given those houses. There are almost 184 tenants who have not been given those houses up to date. The residents of Buxton Estate had found themselves in a situation where they had been evicted out of their homes where they had been residents for a long time. The houses they were living in were demolished and replaced by beautiful apartments. The contract between the developers and the county government was not sufficient to accommodate those former tenants. This Bill is part of an effort to create a legal framework for affordable housing units. One of the strongest complaints that the committee was confronted with is the Buxton Petition. Clauses 2 and 47 have gone ahead to compel the Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development to define the parameters of affordable housing. Madam Temporary Speaker, when the committee faced the Petition by residents of Buxton Estate, the biggest problem we had was how to pass this Bill so that they could be accommodated."
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