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HOUSING POLICIES AND STRATEGIES IN THE NETHERLANDS; LESSONS FOR KENYA
| Abstract: The challenge facing City management authorities in the world today is how to create sustainable cities as the numbers of people living in cities continue to grow at approximately twice the rate of that in the rural areas. The total world population is 7 billion out of which 3.6 billion (52%) are urban. It is projected that the global city population will increase to 5.34 billion by the year 2025, thus exerting greater pressure on the natural environment than ever before. Kenya is rapidly urbanizing at the rate of 4% per annum and is projected to be a predominantly urban country by 2033.Currently about 30 percent of the population live in urban areas. Every year more than 250,000 Kenyans are moving to cities and former rural areas are becoming increasingly urban (World Bank, 2014).Rapid Urbanization has brought into fore the growing phenomenon of slums which is a key pointer to ineffective urban planning and dysfunctional housing policies. Netherlands is one of the developed countries that offers lessons for addressing the problem of acute shortage of housing in Kenya. The Social housing in the Netherlands demands that all citizens in various classes including; the high, medium and low income people live in the same decent and affordable housing. The paper recommends that there is need to twine housing and land policies in Kenya in order to provide an enabling environment for increasing housing supply. |
| Keywords: urbanization; housing policy; social housing |
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