{"id":1782,"date":"2022-12-30T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:45:05","slug":"landlords-tenants-opposed-proposed-land-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/12\/30\/landlords-tenants-opposed-proposed-land-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlords, tenants oppose proposed land rates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221230_114838_788-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221230_114838_788-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221230_114838_788-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221230_114838_788-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221230_114838_788-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221230_114838_788-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221230_114838_788-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221230_114838_788-1980x1485.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Landlords and Tenants Association of Kenya (LATAK) &nbsp;on Friday opposed the proposed increase of land rates by the Nairobi County government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Liyai, Secretary General of LATAK told journalists in Nairobi that an increase in land rates will have a negative impact on the cost of living as the country is already suffering from&nbsp; diffirent economic situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need adequate public participation as enshrined in our constitution before any land rate increases are effected,\u201d Liyai said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LATAK is an organization established to defend and protect the rights of 5 million landlord and 18 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tenants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that a lot of disruption took place as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic because it caused lost of jobs and massive defaults on the part of landlords and tenants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLandlords failed to meet their expectation on loan repayment and many tenants have since been affected,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landlords and Tenants Association of Kenya (LATAK) &nbsp;on Friday opposed the proposed increase of land&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}