Erdemann Property Limited (EPL) , a construction engineering company is working with the government to ensure there is affordable housing .
The government’s Big Four economic blue-print intends to deliver 1 million affordable homes in the next five years.
The firm will be constructing 2000 unit every year targeting Kenyans working in the middle to low income categories.
Speaking when receiving the ISO 9001: 2015 certification at the Great Wall Gardens Estate in Athi River last Friday where the company has constructed 2000 units, Erdemann group of companies Mr. John Zeyun Yang said that he was looking forward to importing new technology that would see EPL take the lead in the construction Industry in Kenya and East Africa at large.
Yang explained that traditionally, and particularly in real estate, infrastructure is always followed by developments and not the other way round, which has been the case in Kenya, especially in satellite cities/gated communities.
“The targeted market for the affordable housing project are working Kenyans in the middle to low-income categories”, he added.
He said that promoting and working with government will see to it that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s big four agenda in affordable housing is attained
“EPL started its operations here in Kenya in the year 1997 and has managed to put up over 4000 units within and outside Nairobi”, he said .
General Manager Xiangguo noted that as a firm they have undertaken measures to ensure that the 2000 affordable units they will be constructing each year will be strategically located housing projects across the country..
Government has been encouraging partnerships with private developers by making public land for development available and undertaking land swaps, which involves the transfer of public land to private developers in exchange for more suitable land for development, but of equal value.
The Housing and Urban Development Ministry in January this year shortlisted 35 firms to partner with the government in building 1 million houses over the next five years at a cost of Ksh2.6 trillion.
The houses included some 8,000 houses under construction in Mavoko on a 55-acre piece of land in the pilot phase with further housing projects earmarked in Kitengela, Athi River and other locations across the country.
In total, the government targets to build 200,000 units every year for the next five years, with some 10,000 targeting slum dwellers under the social housing unit.
