Low incomes, few houses: How high rent prices leave tenants with empty pockets

The proximity of Kajiado County to the country’s capital is one of the reasons tenants are spending more than half of their incomes on rent as demand for housing in the area continues to skyrocket.

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) data shows that Kajiado County has the highest rent-to-household expenditure at 64.7 per cent, even as the rural part of Wajir posts the highest across the country at a record 73.9 per cent.