The 100 per cent rent increase for the more than 3,000 Uasin Gishu county government housing units in Eldoret town will take effect next month. Tenants have gone to court to stop the rent hike but the county government has issued notices to all of them to pay up the new rents next month or risk being evicted from the houses.
The notices have been circulated to all the estates owned by the county government. The new rents were approved following the passage of the Finance Bill by the county assembly two months ago. The tenants said the new rents are unjustifiable.
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