The place names of Nairobi’s informal settlements offer a glimpse into the realities of people who live there.
A child walks along a road in Mathare informal settlement.
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Residents of Nairobi’s informal settlements use names as a way of voicing the issues that they struggle with every day.
About 56% of Kenya’s urban population currently lives in a slum.
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The rental housing market in Nairobi’s informal settlements offers its tenant households a perverse market outcome of higher prices for lower quality products
About 250,000 people live in Kibera slum in Nairobi.
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Kenya needs to complete its national digital land registry to increase transparency and efficiency of the city’s land.