President William Ruto Promises On Rural housing and settlement

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President William Ruto Promises On Rural housing and settlement

Rural housing and settlement The right to housing as enshrined in the constitution is not limited to urban settlements. Indeed, the vast majority of Kenyans live in their own rural homes. That said, rural Kenya also has its fair share of land and settlement challenges, including landlessness, insecure land tenure, notably the historical squatter problem in the Coast region.

Population pressure on land resources is manifested by fragmentation, encroachment of forests and other ecologically sensitive areas and human-wildlife conflict. This is despite Kenya having considerable unused and underutilised agricultural land. Over the years, administrative solutions such as limits on land subdivision, as well as ceilings on land ownership and taxing of idle land, have been mooted. Kenya Kwanza is persuaded that such measures should be a last resort and more friendly solutions should be sought and applied.

Kenya Kwanza Commitment

• Kenya Kwanza commits to establish a Settlement Fund similar to the one that was used to acquire land from settler farmers after independence;

• To stop land fragmentation, the land purchased by the scheme will be subject to land use planning where beneficiaries will own transferable residential plots in planned settlement, and right to lease non-transferable agricultural land.

 

SOURCE: Citizen Digital

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