![]() This however contradicted participative strategies of the ‘supporter’ paradigm. The independent state policies hardly deviated from the same premise. Favoured by her British colonial heritage, these strategies were concurrent with the modernist paradigm and operationalised as ‘provider’ housing template. In first part, the paper traces the historical evolution and the structure of the city’s housing strategies. Although additive transformations, manifest as extensions, are responsible for needed additional housing stock, the paper appends the supporting view that qualitative value-addition fulfilling socio-economic needs are also central to the dwellers’ objectives. Housing demand in Nairobi city has exceeded her rapid population growth culminating in shortage, contributory to informal settlements, and now increasingly attributed to dweller-initiated transformation in formal housing.
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