Kenyan & Tanzanian Surburbs

The Government of Republic of Kenya have made it now let us see what will happen in Tanzania on road net works and habitats can we make it??
 

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Meet Nairobi's slum 'millionaires

Updated 14 mins ago
By Moses Michira
Meet Nairobi's slum 'millionaires

Updated 14 mins ago
By Moses Michira
Nairobi's slums, home to an estimated two million poor people, are unknown to many lucrative havens where some enterprising Kenyans rake in millions of shillings.
Most of these people have taken advantage of the huge demand for housing and the sheer numbers to make a fortune.
Slumlords lay a claim on dozens of single-roomed houses, built using rusty mabati or mud, for which they earn attractive returns.
Some, however, sell all manner of consumables and take advantage of the numbers to make their money.
Tenants pay rent ranging between Sh700 and Sh2000 a month, depending on accessibility and the proximity to basic extras like toilets, bathrooms and water.
Daivid Karanja owns 47 such units in Mukuru Kwa Reuben village for which he lets for Sh1,300. His tenants use commercial toilets about 50 metres away, which charge Sh8 for a shower and use of the latrines.
Landlords here do not provide toilets, the rent is only for the house said Mr Karanja who has lived in the slum since 1996, adding that the commercial toilet facilities remain open from 5am to 10 pm.
His monthly rental income from the houses alone is Sh61,100, comparable to revenue from letting four two-bedroom apartments in Nairobi's middle income neighbourhood.
Farming fortune
He, however, admits that he does not know whom the land he has built his houses belongs to.
Nearby, Stephen Kamanga is tending to his five dairy cows and four piglets.
Mr Kamanga gets about 30 litres of milk per day from the three cows, which he sells to his neighbours at Sh35 for half a litre.
His daily income from the milk is more than Sh2000, which translates to about Sh60000 a month.
That is besides the income from selling of piglets and male calves.
I have bought my farm in bits from neighbours who are willing to sell said Mr Kamanga, a retired mechanic who feeds his livestock on waste from vegetable vendors.
There are tens of Kamangas in this densely populated slum, where some of his neighbours across the river live on the upper floors of two-storeyed shanties and keep dairy animals on the ground floor.
Across the city in Kibera slums, touted as the largest informal settlement in Africa where close to a million people reside, Justus Mulwa would easily be among the biggest slum lords.
His monthly rental income is over Sh150,000 exclusive of taxes from the 88 single rooms that he owns.
The rental houses are spread among several villages of the expansive slum, from the more affluent Laini Saba to the poorer Silanga, where he lives.
I want to build 14 more on this space said Mulwa while pointing for a space that on the last row of Silanga village.
He would easily pass for any slum dweller with a misery income going by his dressing, old clothes and torn plastic sandals.
You have to look like every other person to make it here, he adds in explaining his humble lifestyle even when he is among the people with the highest incomes in the city.
As a supplier of electricity, Mulwa's present monthly income is more than twenty-fold the country's minimum wage, which the majority of his tenants hardly earn.
The massive housing development of the wider Langata area has helped in the drying up of theNairobi Dam, previously a massive water body where in the 1980s families enjoyed their weekend outings, but now play host to a big part of Kibera.
Just like in Mukuru, Mulwa's tenants use commercial toilet facilities which charge Sh5 per visit while amenities like water and electricity do not come as a package with the house.
Tim Nyaoma, a graduate from a middle level college who has failed to secure a formal job, is one of the suppliers of electricity in Tetra Park village in Mukuru.
He says that the energy trade is tightly controlled by cartels all over the slums.
Not anyone who can supply electricity, it's a tightly controlled business, said Nyaoma who has about 30 clients so far whom he charges Sh300 a month. Others control more than 100 connections.
The illegal connections are tapped from the three-phase power lines that run across the city on about a ten-metre wide leave way.
Tim represents millions of college graduates who had hopes of finding a stable job but have now been pushed to earning a living from illegitimate means.

Standard Digital News - Kenya : Meet Nairobi?s slum 'millionaires'
 

I am impressed by the entrepreneurial spirit. For every person's misery, there is a profit to be made for someone else.
 
Nilichoona mimi hapa ni utofauti wa upigaji wa picha. Katika picha hizi Kenya wako juu. Lakini je! Huu ndo uhalisia? La hasha! Mkenya huyu aliandaa picha nzuri, pia camera yake, na utaalam wa kupiga umechangia sana. Ukitazama kwa makini utagundua kuwa amechukua makazi mapya tu, pia amecheza na maeneo machache yanayovutia. Kama kungepatikana mtu anayeweza kupiga picha hapa TZ na kupiga arround UDOM, Bungeni, Hotel za Arusha na Dar, Mlimani City, Mawasiliano House DSM, Kapri Point Mwanza tungewapiga bao hawa mbwiga.
 
nadhani kama umesoma uzi huu vizuri lengo ilikua ni kuonyesha makazi ya kuvutia nchini kwetu. sio realistic kwamba mkenya huyu mmoja alitembea sehem zote hizi na camera yake nzuri na kwa kutumia ujuzi wake akatafuta nyumba mpya na kuzipiga picha. alafu wapiga picha Tanzania wakawa ni watu wasio na ujuzi na camera zao mbovu na wakaacha kupiga picha nyumba mpya na wakapiga za zamani! naona ukweli ni kwamba maeneo ya kupiga picha ni chache hapa dar ukilinganisha na Nairobi. ukweli ni kwamba kwenye chain stores Kenya inazidiwa na afrika kusini tu Africa. nilipata nafasi kidogo kutembea Mombasa na ungekua umefika nakumatt nyali ambayo iko Mombasa, mlimani city tunayo jidai nayo utaiona kama uchafu. hapa tunaongelea tu ndoto zetu za kuifikia Kenya kwenye miundo mbinu
 
Nairobi dropped to #11 from the top position in global high end real estate market growth largely attributed to insecurity brought about by the al-Shabaab menace & the uncertainty due to the March 4 general elections.

This has been a very interesting thread to say the least. It deteriorated from showcasing the suburbs to plastering slum pictures as a counter measure. For the TZ people, take pride in what you have and build on it. Use the Nairobi, and to a greater degree Kenya's global accomplishment in prime real estate as a measuring stick to gauge your progress but not as a slight to your accomplishments. Cape town was the second African city at #28 .
The top nine list is as follows;

1. Jakarta, Indonesia at 38.1%
2. Bali, Indonesia at 20%
3. Dubai, UAE at 20%
4. Miami, USA at 19.5%
5. Sao Paolo, Brazil at 14%
6. Gstaad, Switzerland at 13.2%
7. Auckland, New Zealand at 12.7%
8. Los Angeles, USA at 12.5%
9. Shanghai, China at 10.8%

The growth will rebound again as the year progresses with more high end residential properties go up.
 
kshaka said:
look who's talking...aren't you the one who's filled this thread with photos of cbd skylines and cityscapes?
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show me these photos, i will explain if necessary🙂
 

we una matatizo kweli..eti tutumie Nairobi kama yard stick hahahaha..hivi unadhani Nairobi ni London, Singapore, New York au Hong Kong nini? Bora ungesema tutumie Cape Town kama yard stick maana its mentioned as the best city in Africa in basically all things essential..Nairobi is dirt poor like most of the major african cities with major thugs..so go to hell with your stupid chest thumping.

and by the way it was mentioned last year that Dar will use the Singapore model as its inspiration on where to go..so thanks but no thanks.
 
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