| dc.description.abstract | Maintenance costs cover the overall cost or budget, which is allocated to keep the building to
its best performance, or to retain the building in good condition. It has been noted that the
main objective of maintenance management organization is to ensure the required or
acceptable standards and level of services provided in the building continuously at the
minimum cost. This research sought to establish the factors affecting housing maintenance
management cost in Kakamega Municipality, Kenya. The study objectives were to establish
the effect of building characteristics on maintenance management costs in Kakamega
Municipality; to establish the effect of tenant factors on maintenance management costs in
Kakamega Municipality; to establish the overall effect of maintenance factors on
maintenance management costs in Kakamega Municipality and to establish the effect of
political factors on maintenance management costs in Kakamega Municipality. The study
adopted a descriptive survey design. The target population consisted of 62 employees from
Kakamega Municipality and 16 employees from the Ministry of Housing. A sample of 78
respondents were used. Stratified random sampling was used to categorize the Kakamega
Municipality and Ministry of Housing while purposive random sampling was used to select
the key informants. The tools used in data collection were the questionnaire and interview
schedules. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and presented in form
of means, standard deviation, frequency tables. The results will be useful to policy makers,
researchers, practitioners, academicians, professionals in the County as well as stakeholders
in the Ministry of Housing in Kenya. | en_US |
