Nairobi County to demolish 17,000 housing units

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@Okwonkwo

and talking of slums, I haven’t heard what the Govt has to offer for Kibera, Mathare and other slums. We can’t continue being the city that has the largest slum in Africa.

That’s the thing. How are they going to demolish stone structures and leave behind structures made of mud, tin and carton boxes? It didn’t make sense in the year 2000 when the then mayor Joe Aketch came up with the plan and it doesn’t make sense in 2018. Mukuru Kwa Reuben na Kwa Njenga, Buru phase 6, Kibera, Mathare, need to go first before Kaloleni, Shauri, Mbotela and Bahati can be demolished

[Mworia_Wameru]

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_Nairobi

[Muthamaki]

@Okwonkwo

and talking of slums, I haven’t heard what the Govt has to offer for Kibera, Mathare and other slums. We can’t continue being the city that has the largest slum in Africa.

A similar plan should be done for the slums with the people dispersed all over the county to break the slum, herd, mentality

That biggest slum in africa is an NGO myth to keep the gravy train running, the population in kibera is approximately 170,000 while in makoko ,lagos it approximated to 300,000 no census has been taken. :rolleyes:

The population estimates vary widely, from 40,000 to as much as 300,000. “Nobody knows, there’s no [credible] data available,” says Monika Umunna, of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, one of the most active non-governmental organisations at work in Makoko.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/23/makoko-lagos-danger-ingenuity-floating-slum
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2608506/Slum-stilts-A-mother-baby-paddles-dirty-oily-water-Nigerias-Makoko-slum-250-000-residents-huddle-homes-lagoon.html

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@Mworia Wameru

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in the year 2000 when the then mayor Joe Aketch[/B] …

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_Nairobi

I am off by 3 years. Noma sana
www.nation.co.ke/news/Low-cost-flats-to-replace-old-council-houses-/1056-912202-view-asAMP-t8ulh8z/index.html

[Okwonkwo]

@Muthamaki

the population in kibera is approximately 170,000

170,000 people, assuming they are grouped in family clusters of 5, serikali can build some 34,000 units for these people. And have them pay a little rent to own them in the long term.

A similar or less number in Mathare and the slums are made livable.

[MortyTuumbo]

@Okwonkwo

Nairobi is due for urban renewal. Those old city council estates/colonial era houses are an eyesore and they should have been demolished decades ago. Demolishing 17,000 units to pave way for units that will house 600,000 is good.

On that matter, the Moi Airbase should be moved too… we don’t need an airport so close to the CBD. KDF can build another base in Masaku. Releasing that land for housing will add close to a million of affordable housing units.

Moi Airbase isn’t going anywhere. They just built a secondary runway and they working on starting creating a buffer around the base.

Can’t move the airbase as its a functional defensive feature for Nairobi

[Okwonkwo]

@MortyTuumbo

Moi Airbase isn’t going anywhere. They just built a secondary runway and they working on starting creating a buffer around the base.

Can’t move the airbase as its a functional defensive feature for Nairobi

it was relevant during the colonial times, not anymore. Furthermore, militaries around the world routinely close bases when they have outlived their usefulness.

[Mediocre]

@Yunomi

That’s the thing. How are they going to demolish stone structures and leave behind structures made of mud, tin and carton boxes? It didn’t make sense in the year 2000 when the then mayor Joe Aketch came up with the plan and it doesn’t make sense in 2018. Mukuru Kwa Reuben na Kwa Njenga, Buru phase 6, Kibera, Mathare, need to go first before Kaloleni, Shauri, Mbotela and Bahati can be demolished

Kwanza huko kwa Reuben. Wah, I didn’t know such places existed. Kwanza kukinyesha it’s like houses built on a pigsty, I don’t understand how people leave comfortable villages to live in such places.

[MortyTuumbo]

@Okwonkwo

it was relevant during the colonial times, not anymore. Furthermore, militaries around the world routinely close bases when they have outlived their usefulness.

It’s still very much relevant it keeps the skies over JKIA safe. (Incase of highjacking) The bases still houses army helicopters and a few jets time to time and soon bigger transport planes.