New zoning revisions and a social services funding shift expected to affect hundreds of thousands of residents across informal settlements and peri-urban wards.
Three overlapping government changes taking effect this July will reshape household budgets, daily commutes and small business costs across the capital.
Two years after Kenya introduced a mandatory 1.5 percent housing levy on gross salaries, Nairobi residents are living with an uneven distribution of benefits — formal workers are paying in, but informal-sector families in Mathare and Korogocho are still waiting for units.
