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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a very important Motion for me especially with my background on health. The so-called low-income earners are distributed across the country. I would like to see us cut down on the urbanisation of buildings and spread it to the rural areas. The low-income earners host the jobless. In fact, it is the opposite of the affluent community. They can stay with five or 10 people in their houses. I want to encourage the regulation of the houses. For example, you cannot put five or six people or a family in a ten by ten room. We need to also provide affordable and adequate housing for the low-income earners. Most developed countries have developed another strategy that requires 30 per cent of low-income earners to go directly in repaying the rent. We need to adopt that. Once that is implemented, it may prevent the idea of renting out a house that has been allocated to you. It is working very well in developed countries and has become an issue of the past. I would also like to advocate for the improvement of local materials. We still have a lot of quarries and locally manufactured materials, but we are not paying attention to them. It can drastically reduce the pricing of houses. I support the national housing fund with structures and policies so that we can implement them. Things like playgrounds have been mentioned here. The number of autistic children is going up because children have become very inactive and have nowhere to play. If there is poor housing, rest assured we will pay for it a lot in the health sector. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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