Report on Urban and Peri-Urban Residential Housing-Related Crimes in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu

Residential housing forms an important part of the Government’s key agenda on “Affordable Housing” in the Big Four Agenda. Housing is given emphasis by a number of instruments, key among them the Kenya Constitution 2010 which explicitly recognizes the rights of all citizens to accessible and adequate housing and to reasonable standards of sanitation, and the Kenya Vision 2030 development which blueprint seeks to transform Kenya into a middleincome country, providing a high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030 in a clean and secure environment. The latter instrument prioritizes the annual production of 200,000 housing units and installation of physical and social infrastructure in slums in 20 urban areas
as a key flagship project.Report on Urban and Peri-Urban Residential Housing-Related Crimes in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu