Nairobi, June 1 -- Development spending on housing continued to absorb the largest share of government development expenditure in the first nine months to March, despite increased funding for roads, underscoring President William Ruto's aggressive push to deliver on his affordable housing agenda.

A report by the National Treasury shows that the State Department for Housing and Urban Development recorded the biggest increase in development spending in the third quarter of the financial year ending June 2026, with expenditure surging more than fourfold to Sh90.6 billion from Sh21.1 billion a year earlier, as the government doubled down on its pledge to build 250,000 affordable housing units annually.

This saw development spending on the c...