Can we copy Singapore's Housing model?

[magreb]

@YuleMseeMbaya

The government should provide housing to employed and unemployed and also control factors of production prices down e.g.land prices. In the UK they have homes for refugees, domestic violence victims, and economically disadvantaged groups, etc, and the government and other well wisher institutions subsidize their housing costs while they pay for the little top-up costs from the small jobs that they get, the development s are also controlled. That is why a person living in a slum in Manchester is more comfortable and lives more decently than a person in Buruburu

My point is, the program has to be so large to invalidate the need for landlords and slum lords else itakuwa kama ile ya kibera where the intended beneficiaries rent out the houses for something small for food to go live in their squalid former abodes. Secondly, the intended beneficiaries must have something going on for them ama ikuwe kama ile ya US where the project houses become breeding grounds for deadly gangs.

[YuleMseeMbaya]

@magreb

My point is, the program has to be so large to invalidate the need for landlords and slum lords else itakuwa kama ile ya kibera where the intended beneficiaries rent out the houses for something small for food to go live in their squalid former abodes. Secondly, the intended beneficiaries must have something going on for them ama ikuwe kama ile ya US where the project houses become breeding grounds for deadly gangs.

True, the people also have to be economically empowered or made productive, even if having access to menial opportunities. the poor people who are in developed countries live on some social welfare and top up with menial jobs to survive. Homeless people are usually down and out not because of poverty but because of another circumstance that is self-inflicted.

[mbwakali]

@johnpombe

Comparing singapore and kenya is wrong. Singapore is a port city, an island just about 20km x 40km in size. It was basically founded by the british as a trading post and port on the southern tip of Malaysia. Then chinese merchants came in and now make about 75% of the population of singapore. When the british left the colony, the chinese and other immigrants who were the majority said they didnt want to be governed by Malaysia due to “ideological differences” and thus formed singapore as a state. Malaysians make only 13% of singapore population. Also note malaysia is a muslim state while immigrants who form singapore state are not. Also many international companies that wanted to operate in south east asia chose singapore as their base due to its strategic location, diverse culture and also the neighbouring countries eg vietnam, cambodia were in turmoil.

Singpaore can only be compared to mombasa town and island which is also a tiny port city. And as you know mombasa is the second largest city and thus has a high GDP due to the port and tourism.

You know Singapore borrowed its design/planning from Nairobi in 1963. The way it is ndivyo Mzungu alikuwa ameplan Nairobi iwe. But after grabbing ,kusongesha mito ,corrupshen etc .this is where we are

[Mwanakijiji]

@Simiyu22

So this is part of the fix. Everybody gets an opportunity to have a place to call their home. Now if you are looking to distribute a free shamba, thats outside the context of this article. Notice that Singaporeans did not even have land to distribute.

The problem with land is it is overpriced so we have to do something to force the ones holding on to large tracks of land to sell it at the price they acquired it. The issue of land appreciating without any value addition should end

[Ass_Clown]

@Jimit

And the award of complete douche bags goes too
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Could have answered you, but I know you (personally) nitaku text

[Wanaruona]

Nice read.

[Jimit]

@Ass Clown

Could have answered you, but I know you (personally) nitaku text

Your momnis the only person you know personally

[Ass_Clown]

@Jimit

Your momnis the only person you know personally

Tez

[GERALD9949]

@johnpombe

We are better than singapore. 80% of kenyans live in rural areas in their own homes rent-free and mortgage-free, and with lots of space. Singaporeans have to pay rent for life or pay mortgages for life just to have a place to live, unlike kenyans who just need one week to put up their house huko ushago and live happily ever after debt free.

https://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/styles/facebook_style/public/images/study/kenya%20UBI%20image.jpg?itok=L47gzwY6

Yes., they live rent free and mortgage free
And also live at the mercy of diseases eradicated in Singapore in the 1960s like TB, Typhoid, Cholera and Hepatitis
They also live with access to dispensaries with Paracetamol as the only drug there.
They also live in rent free houses which once robbed, you have to start from scratch as the Police do not bother even finding the thieves.
First of all, most Singaporeans do not rent. They live in houses with 99 year leases.
And given a choice between the Kenyan model and the Singapore model, none will choose ours.

[Micymas]

@RV Pundit

Generally, I don’t like when Negros talk about housing and land while seemingly oblivious of the totally unjust .ke land distribution.

there is no land problem in Kenya. Sure, some people have disproportionately large chunks of land but everyone in Kenya has the opportunity to access at least five acres of land if they work at it really hard and at least 2 acres if they do not work at it really hard. There are places in this world where you cannot own land based on your race or tribe, no matter how rich you are. Kenya does not have such an issue. For example, jews in Europe used to be barred from owning land until just about 150 years ago

[WazeeNaWatoto]

@YuleMseeMbaya

Very simplistic thinking, a high population should be a blessing to any country because you have a ready market for goods and services and access to labour which if educated and made productive contribute to economic growth, also you have a high tax base to raise revenue from. Both Singapore and Malaysia have good leadership which in turn drive change, they even have an urban planning body that is now planning how their cities will accommodate passenger drones.
In Kenya, a person fakes their certificates and still finds positions that they will be in charge of making decisions in the country in a parastatal just because they have been fixed by the president, DP and their cronies. These people have no vision and dumb down government institutions that are to be the drivers of change.

The issue is rate of growth not total pop

The good news is that Jayden has so thoroughly shafted the economy that Kenyans have curtailed their own breeding tendencies.

We’ve gone from 3.5% in 2009 to 2.3% in 2019 and if the government continues on its current path, we will be at 1% by 2029 if not lower, so not everything is gloomy

[Mwanakijiji]

@WazeeNaWatoto

The issue is rate of growth not total pop

The good news is that Jayden has so thoroughly shafted the economy that Kenyans have curtailed their own breeding tendencies.

We’ve gone from 3.5% in 2009 to 2.3% in 2019 and if the government continues on its current path, we will be at 1% by 2029 if not lower, so not everything is gloomy

Its gloomy we need to give birth to at least 2 children for our society to function properly

[rocker12]

Kenya is ruined. We must take this fact into account. And Singapore is developing quite rapidly. It is wrong to compare Singapore and Kenya. Also, many international companies that wanted to work in Southeast Asia chose Singapore as their base because of its strategic location, diverse culture, and neighboring countries such as Vietnam. And opening a business in Singapore can be obtained very quickly. The same applies to obtaining citizenship. Read this article and see for yourself.