fitness coach and that seemed courtney. you're watching the news live from berlin next up reporter look at nairobi's slumlords i'm and you could have mackinnon on behalf of the whole team here thanks for watching. i'm skilled at the my work that's hard and in the end this for me you are not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers would lie and say. what's your story ready. i'm with numbers of women especially of victims of violence. take part and send us

your story we are trying always to understand this new culture. another visitor another years you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. one of kenya's biggest slums in any order its residents live in corrugated iron shacks landlords such as peter a better known as slum lords they pay gangs in the slum to collect overdue rent with violence if need be this is on her show most of the legit. and some nice you know this is after double the into it. and as you consider islam so slow it up to the job does amaze. me that ray lies northeast of downtown nairobi the capital of

$800000.00 people living here the vast majority on less than $1.00 a day. pages chaika stops at nothing to collect the rents money. is just one of many slum lords in math are a typically they throw together the cheapest possible housing with a new kitchen or running water and then charge rent for it and if necessary they resort to violence to get it or they make lots of money doing this ending the reputation for exploiting the poorest of kenya's pool. i've got 30 houses here i'm afarid was a few i've been putting them up since i 1st came here and i'd like to expand even

more but my ultimate goal is to have 40 houses who are being a landlord is a good idea where you get your money from all the households you can earn very well and expand even further before long just from what you make you can build many new houses. the housing market is not settled regulated tenants have to pay what ever the landlord dumond's so people should have a living space to make it affordable an average of 2.6 pounds. sends to a one room shack the equivalent of some 30 or is a month some knowledge pizza chain collects his rent in person for the camera he puts on an amiable face. day by you're doing good if you've got anything for me or not yet. look ok this is everything going all right. is your husband home. no problem when he comes tell him hello for me. but. now you know i heard anything from your neighbor. no

ok fine. name but he was your neighbor here but later on. ok. are you there and will. hurt. but if someone fails to pay their rent on time the slumlords try and get us to connect it to gangs you can be quick to resort to violence for that 10 your it just fell strong on the tenants will try them out almost lose much as. you know does the officer there will do it one of those crushing with it and someone was sent to the someone but tennant was beaten up is part of bullying because it is the moving bit removing things that are putting them out without giving them 2nd chance or we don't see anyone to have to see but if they have the

money or if the able to get the money that would. be depended on the issues like that because you have to have this look that's what the dickens i saw you make sure that you would really don't miss the uk so you have to go to the london up to the side of the london. i must. have written some people looks is here you have to be tough so then too you can get it so. much you must be tough so that the boys will see that you're doing a good job and i just. bolivia it up for you out of there where did you become. more and more people are crowding into. library peace levels migrating from drought

stricken country sites in search of food water and a better life. but the rents in the slums turn into a kind of trap for many of them a bondage from which they find no escape. 6 6 acne as more of asia is 57 years old she's lived half 18 years now. going to quit and i came to the slum of mothering so my children could go to school or right now there are just little jobs for me left and i used to get all that john so i was going to school fiascos when the pandemic came there i think i got a lot of harder there aren't any jobs anymore i don't have money for food or the rent everything's gotten so hard because hardly any opportunities are left to earn money sometimes i'm so stressed i get sick. in a nearby area agnus joins other women to wait for jobs and earn a bit of money but often enough no jobs out of the hands agnes wants to know who

has a job hunting is going we all are struggling the woman says make there just aren't any jobs would you want to be that magnus stayed home yesterday so she wants to know how it went up and i mean i found a couple of jobs she says but today there's nothing that she'll have to try again. except. the odd jobs i used to get for things like doing laundry or now i come here and mots of young women are sitting there also waiting for what few jobs there are . often they tell me i'm too old and then they take the young women and i stay behind without a job that's a good one. this time i guess more of it she was lucky enough to get a job washing clothes for a family every month once again she faces the pressure of having to earn enough to pay the rent. up to cool down. usually the landlord come shortly before the due

date on the 8th of every month if he comes by and you don't have any money he gets very angry and there's trouble. going up wasn't. enough the credit. many people here sit in the same boat. life in the city carries a high price for the residents especially because a black market economy has a stranglehold on the slum. food water electricity and rents all cost more than in the country. pizza chain keeps meticulous accounts the ones who pay get a receipt those who don't get a visit from one of the slum gangs. for going to the ministry. when i grew up in

a gangs know the people who live here in the slum far better than the police do when i work with a group and they're always willing to help collect the rent. if you go to the police they'll ask you for a pile of money 1st to get a whiff of a. who end up paying more than the $6000.00 shillings the 10 shows you where you are the burger. and the good going to bed is that my daddy's corrugated iron houses myself i'll take 5 years for me to make the money back i invested in them because i generally put in a cement floor. for that group for doing well in the attic in the end you can't say in advance because you'll always have a couple of renters who can't pay. the bill what i've come for the rent but i see the people aren't here but there's no

problems with your husband because he paid his rent yesterday the others aren't here are they. it's empty there's nobody home with they're probably out looking for work renters who are in a reus don't usually stay home during the day. for doing laundry agnes my vision is about one your a 50 but she needs 30 euros for rent if she doesn't pay on time the landlord may resort to extreme measures. that we live in a house that belongs to our landlord sometimes if we didn't pay the rent by the due date the landlord would come and put an ad lock on the homestead he would only unlock it again if we paid the rent or not. she hasn't been able to pay the rent for a full months. walk or 5 earn

a little money and spend it on food i'm afraid i won't have all of it the end of the month the landlord will come and throw us out of the house and do it before you've eaten or cooked something for the kids when i walk i can't sleep any more now because i don't know how it'll go on and. he can come any time and throw us out so little and so i'm afraid with all the time because just anything can happen as he and enough well woke up while his son. akner slips with her husband's children and grandchildren 8 people in the one very lush and without a kitchen buff or running water. if they don't pay the back rent soon they could be out on the street. but the family has something else to worry about. the children's future. oh it's the talk normally the children would be going to

school at the onus as already back at school now i keep getting messages from the school that i have to pay the fees which i haven't done yet and when the younger ones start back to school in ohio and i don't have the slightest idea where i'm going to get the money for it. because of the corona pandemic many slum residents have not been able to pay their rent so many of his houses are standing empty. the regular this place have been unreachable for 3 months now in this apartment the renter has nothing at all he's been out of work for 3 months can't get anything from him for a long run my idea now is roger moved out 6 months in arrears president khurana paddock over the place has been standing empty since no. empty.

empty. i want to have enough money to paint the walls properly here i don't know if the government pay subsidies for landlords to renovate their houses. and to go without the rent from a lot of tenants who just can't pay they don't have any belongings that you can confiscate so very often i end up empty handed. well. some say while his tenants is struggling to survive peter chaika has no worries still his position is ambivalent he might leave his rent as a limb for a few months but then send a gang to collect the payments by force either way people here are dependent on slum lords like him. to. please.

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