Basic income for slums: One step forward and too many back

Basic income for slums: One step forward and too many back

We noted on these pages in April that the government had taken its first steps toward guaranteeing a basic income for the poor and vulnerable population. We had based our calculations on the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Survey and the 2016 UN Habitat Report that gave 8.2 million people in urban slums, or an estimated 2.8 million households, who were – and still are – in urgent need of assistance.

The government had announced to the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Covid-19 that it had identified 250,000 households, as reported in the Star on May 11, which would be put […]

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