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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shitanda",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Housing",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 207,
        "legal_name": "Peter Soita Shitanda",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I said that housing issues are scattered. Let me remind the hon. Member that the Ministries of Local Government and Environment and Natural Resources are involved in housing issues. That is why we want to harmonise all these issues into one authority. We want housing issues to be dealt with in a more professional manner. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is another issue of land grabbing. As we try to implement Government programmes on housing, we find that almost all the public land in Nairobi had either been grabbed or was in the process of being grabbed. This vice is not only confined to the City of Nairobi alone; it is going on even in the other major towns of this country. Our programmes will not succeed and we shall not construct 150,000 houses if land grabbing issues are not addressed in one way or the other. Currently, the housing shortage in this country stands at 150,000 units per year. The private sector is only able to provide 20,000 to 30,000 housing units in a year. In as much as the private sector is trying to provide housing, limited budgetary allocations to the Ministry of Housing is also hampering our ability to provide more housing units and to meet the goal of providing 150,000 July 19, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2189 housing units in a year. This is where I require the support of hon. Members and my Cabinet colleagues, to try and see if we can deliver to Kenyans what we promised during the electioneering period."
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