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    "id": 80981,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/80981/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bishop Wanjiru",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Housing",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 372,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Wanjiru Kariuki",
        "slug": "margaret-wanjiru"
    },
    "content": "(a) I am aware of the housing problems facing slum dwellers not only in Fuata Nyayo, Kaberera, Marigoini, Kisii, Shimo La Tewa, Hazina, Mukuru Kaiyaba and Wiwandani villages in Makadra Constituency, but also in other slums and informal settlements in the country at large. (b) A considerable amount of work has already been undertaken to improve the situation. The Ministry has undertaken several reform measures and initiated various social and physical infrastructure projects across the country to address the challenges in the entire housing sector, including in slums. Those measures include:- (i) Development of National Housing Policy to serve as a blue print in housing development; (ii) Putting in place of necessary legislative and regulatory frameworks in the form of a Housing Bill, 2010, which is compliant with the new constitutional dispensation; (iii) Implementation of the Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme (KENSUP), which is geared towards improving the livelihood of an estimated 5.4 million people living and working in slums and other informal settlements; (iv) Implementation of the Housing Infrastructure Development Programme, which is meant to open up new areas for housing development by providing track and onsite infrastructure and also in informal settlements; (v) Capital restructuring of the National Housing Corporation by injection of more funds for low and middle-income housing construction; (vi) Establishment of the Civil Servants Housing Schemes or Housing Funds to provide civil servants with mortgage facilities to encourage home ownership; (vii) Establishment of Appropriate Building Technology Centres, which we call “ABTCs” to disseminate new building technologies and materials in order to reduce the cost of construction; (viii) Promotion of public/private partnership in housing development in order to benefit from best practices that are cost and time effective; (ix) Offering of incentives to investors in low and middle-income housing development; and, (x) Motivating Kenyans living in the Diaspora to invest back home."
}