The document is country profile of Kenya with specific stress detail of housing supply authorities in the country. Kenya is bordered to the north by Sudan and Ethiopia, to the east by Somalia, to the west by Uganda, to the south by Tanzania, and to the southeast by the Indian Ocean. Much of the country, especially in the north and east, is arid or semi-arid. From the Indian Ocean the land rises gradually through dry bush to the fine arable land of the highlands. Kenya covers an area of approximately 224,960 square miles and lies almost exactly astride the equator.