“A Kenyan Society with Equitable Access to Land, Decent Housing, and Sustainable Infrastructure”
The Financial Year 2024–2025 was a year of accelerated delivery and deepened reform for the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development. Guided by the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda and the social and spatial pillars of Kenya Vision 2030, the Ministry pursued its mandate across four integrated domains: land administration and tenure security; affordable housing and urban development; public works and infrastructure; and physical and land use planning.
Land remains the most politically sensitive and economically significant resource in Kenya. Historical injustices, complex inheritance disputes, boundary conflicts and inadequate documentation have for decades denied millions of Kenyans the security and productivity benefits of clear land ownership. The 452,340 title deeds issued in 2024/25 represent a direct response to this deficit — each title deed a family’s protection against arbitrary eviction, a farmer’s collateral for a loan, and a community’s foundation for investment. The expansion of the National Land Information Management System (NLIMS) to 32 counties cut average processing times from 45 to 12 days and drove a 63 per cent decline in corruption cases in digitized counties, demonstrating that technology is a powerful tool for both efficiency and integrity in land services. The Affordable Housing Program delivered 35,000 units in 2024/25 and has 58,000 more under active construction across foundations, superstructure and finishing stages. With 456,000 applications
received and 28,500 units allocated at a 94 per cent occupancy rate, demand is clearly not the constraint — it is supply capacity, financing access and infrastructure provision that the Ministry is working to address at pace. The mobilization of KSh 18.4 billion through the Affordable Housing Fund and KSh 145 billion through Public-Private Partnerships demonstrates that a diversified financing approach combining public investment, mandatory contributions and private capital can sustain a housing programme at the scale Kenya’s deficit demands. Urban Kenya is growing rapidly, with the urban population expected to reach 50 per cent of the national total by 2035. The Ministry’s urban development agenda addressed this growth on multiple fronts: upgrading 15 informal settlements serving 120,000 residents; establishing 8 new satellite towns to decongest major cities; advancing smart city programs in 4 urban centres; and approving 28 integrated urban development plans providing the spatial governance framework for sustainable urban growth. Physical and land use planning placed 2,400 hectares under green space protection and mainstreamed climate-resilient design standards across all new public developments. This Achievement Report presents the full evidence of 2024/25 performance, including not only the successes but the honest accounting of challenges — rising construction costs, infrastructure deficits in new housing developments, complex multi-agency land disputes, and the institutional capacity gaps that constrain the pace of reform. The Way Forward section articulates the Ministry’s strategic priorities for 2025/26 and the medium-term horizon, providing a roadmap for continued progress toward a Kenya in which every citizen has secure access to land, decent housing and quality infrastructure.
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