Strategizing the Decennial Census of Housing for Poverty Reduction in Kenya

Abstract

As the world gropes for the understanding and solutions to poverty, one of the its typologies that has come to the fore is housing poverty. Housing poverty afflicts developing countries in particular and solution to it may mean solution to other forms of poverty. One of the strategies that can be used to promote the understanding of housing poverty and hence show the way to its reduction is the decennial census of housing. This paper intends to determine whether the decennial census of housing can be used as a strategy for the reduction of housing poverty in Kenya. It evaluates the whole census business and recommends that some of the missing UN-recommended housing topics be incorporated for a complete portrait of housing poverty in the country. It also recommends that the analysis and reporting of the census survey should be more sensitive to the geographical and social extents of housing poverty in Kenya. This would transform the decennial census of housing into an effective strategy for poverty reduction for Kenya and for that matter any developing country in the world.

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