Housing and Urban Development Principal Secretary Charles Hinga addressed the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) roundtable on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in New York on Thursday where he disclosed that by prioritising the Affordable Housing Program, Kenya had seen investments of over Ksh2.3 trillion being realised. “Through this program, we have made a strong commitment to catalyse housing projects that will deliver housing en-masse, provide affordable home financing solutions, and create an enabling environment for continued development. Our efforts have catalysed private sector investment in housing, and we note reports from our National Construction Authority of investments of over Ksh2.3 trillion in registered housing projects between April 2017 and February 2022,” Mr Hinga said. He further revealed that through the Slum Upgrading Department, the Government had constructed social housing, developed community health centres, social and multipurpose halls, ablution blocks, schools, markets, and installed street lighting to enhance security across the country in various slums and settlements. “Additionally, the implementation of the Kenya Informal Settlement Improvement Project (KISIP),with support from the World Bank and other development partners, had allowed us to improve infrastructure, access to tenure security and related physical and spatial planning within informal settlements across 15 municipalities and a total of 1,389,980 direct beneficiaries,” he said.