The National Minister of Housing, Lindiwe Sisulu hosted a Social Contract Plenary Session with a number of significant participants within the housing industry on 15 March. At the historical signing of the Social Contract for the Rapid Housing Delivery by various stakeholders in September last year all of the signatories agreed to hold a Plenary Session within the first quarter of this year

Housing provision in Nairobi is dominated by large scale private landlordism. It is estimated that 84% of the city's households rent, and large scale private landlordism applies to the entire range of housing from exclusive developments (their tenants are the employees of international NGOs and UN bodies), through middle income to lowest income informal settlements, referred to as 'slums'

Government has given developers and construction companies an opportunity to introduce other forms of building material in the affordable housing market. In this regard, 17 houses have been built in Soshanguve near Tshwane to display other forms of traditional and modern technologies other than brick and mortar. These include among other insulative precast concrete, brick and steel, and water-based resin