ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Affordable Housing Act
2. Interpretation
Edition: 2026-07-01 · In force
2. Interpretation
(1)In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—“agency” means an institution allocated monies for affordable housing under section 11;“administrator of the Fund” means the person designated as the administrator of the Fund under section 26 (1);“affordable housing” means housing that is adequate and costs not more than thirty percent of the income of a person per month to rent or acquire;“affordable housing scheme” means the construction of affordable housing units including such other social amenity, infrastructure or services and the acquisition, laying out, subdivision and the development of land comprised within the area of the scheme necessary for social welfare and trading;“Board” means the Affordable Housing Board established under section 16;“Cabinet Secretary” means the Cabinet Secretary for the time being responsible for matters relating to affordable housing;“Chief Executive Officer” means the person appointed as such under section 25;“collector” means the Commissioner-General of the Kenya Revenue Authority, appointed under section 11(1) of the Kenya Revenue Authority Act (Cap. 469);“County Committee” means the County Affordable Housing Committee established under Part IV of this Act;“Fund” means the Affordable Housing Fund established under section 8;“institutional housing” means housing that is adequate and affordable for public institutions such as universities, colleges, police, defence forces, government pool housing and prisons; and“Levy” means the Affordable Housing Levy imposed under section 4.(2)For purposes of this Act, “affordable housing unit” refers to—(a)a social housing unit means a house targeted to a person whose monthly income is below twenty thousand shillings;(b)an affordable housing unit means a house targeted at a person whose monthly income is between twenty thousand and one hundred and forty-nine thousand shillings;(c)affordable middle class housing unit means middle to high income housing targeted at persons whose monthly income is over one hundred and fortynine thousand shillings; or(d)rural affordable housing unit means a house under section 42 targeted at a person living in any area which is not an urban area.