Population, Urbanisation and Housing – Policy, Legal and Institutional Reforms

Reforms on Population, Urbanisation and Housing will include:

• The development of supportive legislation and Implementation of the National Housing Policy formulated in 2004;
• Enactment of Built Environment Bill 2012 and Landlord and Tenant Bill;
• Review and harmonisation of legal and institutional framework governing urbanisation;
• The enactment of the Housing Bill of 2012 and formulation of the following policies; Housing, Maintenance, National Slum Prevention and Upgrading, Housing Infrastructure framework and Leasing and Accommodation;
• Implementation of the Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2012 on Population Policy for National Development;
• Formulation and implementation of Urban Development Policy;
• Reviewing existing land tenure and administrative policy issues.