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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "We also need to look at the planning aspect in this Sessional Paper on the National Housing Policy. There is poor planning. Our urban areas are not connected with water, roads and sanitation facilities. At the end of the day, you find a very good house but the other infrastructures that are supposed to go by it are not there. I disagree totally with what the Majority Whip was saying that we should allow the county governments to have rental houses. That is the last thing that we should ever do. We should allow county governments to build houses on tenancy purchase, but not allow them to collect rent where they never come back to do any maintenance at all and charge very high fees. The county governments ought to build houses, get into partnership with other donors or other development agencies and build houses which they can give on a long term tenancy purchase. Allowing county governments to put up rental houses will never help a young person or a young couple to own a house and pay for it at a reasonable rate. We need to look critically at this Sessional Paper on the National Housing Policy. Environmental and social impact assessment reports ought to be given whenever any investor is coming up with a housing scheme so that we do not end up affecting the environment. We have seen cases where people have built houses in very low places and the result is that sanitation and connecting the houses to sewage treatment plants becomes very difficult. We also need to look at it very critically and scrutinise, more so, with regard to funding. What has been said about the NSSF is a very good idea. The 10 per cent of the NSSF should be given at a very cheap rate to people who want to build houses. It is something that we really need to look into. With those few remarks, I support the Motion."
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