Rural housing conditions in Kisii District, Kenya

Abstract

Housing conditions in the Third World have been paid attention to by individual research workers, research institutes, local and central government departments and international organizations. Over time, this attention fluctuated in intensity and nature. Policy measures differed according to the view attached to the role of housing in development. In a previous report on housing conditions in rural Kenya, three different views were distinguished as to the role of housing in development (Sterkenburg, 1978).