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"speaker_name": "Hon. Alice Wahome",
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"content": "have its share. The bigger projects we are taking up are at least 1,200. In other counties, we have even gone up to 5,000. In Nairobi, for example, since it is a capital City, it has a bigger population. If you go to Mukuru, we have 13,750 housing units. By the end of this year, if the President agrees to launch the projects, we should be able to release about five blocks that are ready and are over 1,000 housing units. I am very confident. What we are waiting for are the lifts for those particular five blocks. The total that we plan to do per year is 200,000 units. That is our plan. We expect that within the next three years, working with this term, we will be able to do one million houses if everything being constant. In Nairobi, we also are doing houses along Jogoo Road, Starehe, South B, Park Road, Parklands and I think near Kabete. So, maybe Nairobi will be the biggest beneficiary because of its population. However, we are working in every county. The second question is: Are we working with the governors? Also, there is the National Housing Corporation (NHC) that is, so far now, doing very well. We have houses in Homa Bay with NHC. We have houses in Embu, which within one year of launching those projects, are almost complete. We are also in Nyandarua, Homa Bay, Kisumu Town, and Embu with NHC. I am very sure in the next six months, we will be giving them out. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even though the question has been pulled out by the owner, there is other information which is in my report and the Senators can read it. So far, we have 124,000 housing units, providing by way of job creation to around 150,000 jobs for this particular number of housing units. Our target is 200,000 and the number of jobs for the youth should double to around 250,000. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is an impact on the ground because of this job creation. We also do extra schools, dispensaries and health facilities around these projects. That is part of the social amenities that we come up with. We will not just drop a project of 1,000 house units without looking at the facilities around it. Do we have a school? Is the population of the school going to explode because of the new population? Automatically it will. Sometimes we have to do a new school. We can also expand an existing school or dispensary or the health centres depending on the space. So, maybe I have said enough of that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, allow me to appeal to Kenyans to support this programme. This is one of the best programmes of the national Government. Within the next year, the impact of this programme will be felt."
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