Homelessness in Kenya

Home is the base where everything begins.

Having a place you can call home means that you have a place you can seek shelter, comfort, peace, and more. A home is a place you can find love and happiness and possibly a place you feel safe and can truly be yourself. Home means you have a future. When you have a stable home, you can think beyond where you are going to live from week to week, and you can begin to look ahead to where you want to go.

Homelessness

Definitions of homelessness vary widely globally. However, a simple definition of homelessness is the state of having no home, or inadequate housing, and is caused by one or more of the following factors:

Poverty
Loss of home
Displacement due to a catastrophic event such as fire or a flood
Eviction
Breakup of the family due to a divorce or death
Political violence

Homelessness by the numbers

In 2005, the global estimate of homeless people by the United Nations Organization was 100 million.
In 2015, Habitat for Humanity reported that there were 1.6 billion people globally living in inadequate housing. Their census included people living in shelters and slums (also referred to as the hidden homeless).