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How government is losing millions in rents from housing units

Kenyans Queueing to view the 228 completed units out of 1370 being constructed by government at Parkroad Nairobi under the affordable housing programme on Friday, March 6, 2020. [File, Standard]

The government is losing more than Sh176.8 million in rent collections due to boarded houses that are either uninhabitable or have been transferred to other agencies.

A report by the Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has raised concerns over the state of these buildings, detailing how boarded units are now shrinking the government’s stock of houses.

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