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    "id": 775942,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 78,
        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "Of course, there is the limited access to housing finance and the high cost of the same. Low-income earners cannot access financing for their houses and when they do so, it is too expensive for them. Therefore, the Government has to find a way of making it possible for low- income earners to access housing finance. There is a big gap in terms of us identifying and appreciating technology for construction of low-cost houses. We need to find a construction technology that is cheaper. We know that countries like Singapore, China, Malaysia and others are building houses using low cost technology that is faster and cheaper. That way, they are able to make sure that the low-income earners access houses. The Policy also identifies the lack of a legal framework that will allow the smooth running of this whole sector that aims at taking care of the poor. The poor management of public housing is also identified as a major gap that really needs to be looked into. Therefore, when we pass this particular Policy, we are giving room for the ministry and the Government to bring a national social housing fund that will come here for us to debate and pass it and even come up with a national housing Act that is friendlier towards the low income earners. So, I am asking this House to kindly pass this particular Policy because it opens doors for many other things that will need to be done and then we can begin to build the 500,000 houses. The only thing I would like to say is that as we do this, there will definitely be a need of coming up with a formula of identifying the beneficiaries of these houses. In the past, we have seen houses meant for the low income earners going to high income earners, the well positioned in Government and the high officers in Government. We hope that this time, for sure, if it is meant for low income earners it goes to low income earners and when we get to the point of low income earners, we want a percentage of these houses to be identified for women, especially single mothers who have families and need to have houses for their families. With those many remarks, I beg to second."
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