Twenty families yesterday benefited from Sh13.4 million housing scheme at Nyalenda Slum in Kisumu County.
According to the chairperson of Nyalenda Housing Society Valentine Odhiambo, the next 60 families will move into the second and third phase of the housing project.
"The other 60 families will move in during the phase two and phase three. The new occupant of the house have choice to upgrade the house and fence it," Odhiambo said.
Speaking to the media yesterday at Nyalenda, Odhiambo said that the project targets low-income members who are residents in the slum and earn less than a dollar daily.
" The housing project targets low-income earners could be the boda boda operator, vegetable vendors so that they can move into affordable housing," said Odhiambo.
He said that the housing project is open to Kisumu residents from other slums such Manyatta and Obunga who face challenges of informal settlement.
Nyalenda Housing Society chairperson asked the Kisumu County government to construct proper roads to the Nyalenda slum area.
The Nyalenda Housing Society began in 2008 as housing scheme under the national government to upgrade and improve the shelter in slum areas.