In 2023/2024 budget. Affordable housing proposed allocations of : Ksh7.3bn for Kenya Urban Programme; Ksh5.5bn to Kenya Mortgage Refinance Company; Ksh6.5bn for construction of affordable and social housing units will correspondingly go hand in hand with building codes set up constructions.
Some of the easily preventable diseases, such as tuberculosis, meningitis, upper respiratory tract infections, and household injuries often occur as a result of unsanitary housing of poor design and construction. As per building codes; The total area of all ventilation apertures should not be less than 20 per cent of the total area. Adequate ventilation helps to prevent the concentration of pathogens-carrying particles. Most of pathogens are unicellular organisms that occur singly or in colonies.