let that realize northeast of downtown nairobi the capital of the $800000.00 people living here the vast majority on less than $1.00 a day. peachy chaika stops at nothing to collect the rent money. is just one of many slumlords in my farai typically they throw together the cheapest possible housing with 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 and in the reputation for exploiting the poorest of kenya's pool. i've got 30 houses here about. your 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

grilling a landlord is good if 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 the tool of 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 $2.00 persons 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. value and if you've got anything for me or not yet. ok ok this is everything going all right. is your husband home. no problem when he comes with tell him hello for me.

now do i really mean from your neighbor. no ok fine. by you is your neighbor here about later. ok. are you there and will. hurt. but if someone fails to pay their rent on time the slumlords my i get is to connect it to gangs you can be quick to resort to violence for that 10 euro just fell strong on the tenants will try them out almost lose much as it. is from ny this is a sure they will do it one of those crushing with someone who was so into the someone that tenant was beaten up is part of bullying because it is the removing that removing the things that are putting them out without giving them 2nd chance or without hearing what they have to say but if they have the money or if they were

to get the money that would go that way don't. you depend on the issues like that cause you have to to have issues like that so the dickens i saw you make sure that you would move don't move there are so you have to be good to the land of the state of the london. i must. of been some people not says you have to be tough for them to begin to get it so. you have got guys who must be tough so that the boss will see that you're doing a good job and i just on the bolivia that up are you out of there well did you become. more and more people are crowding into nairobi slums migrating from drought stricken

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

a job hunting is going away all the struggling the woman says oh my there just aren't any jobs we want to be that magnus stayed home yesterday so she wants to know how it went yeah yeah but i mean i found a couple of jobs she says but today there's nothing that i shall have to try again . except. the odd jobs i used to get were things like doing laundry. 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 so. this time i guess more than 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. after korda. 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 that's 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 and tricity and rents will 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 some gangs. are going to the minister who on the. other group teenage gangs know the people who live here in the slum far

better than the police do. a good one there are 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 new birth. and you end up paying more than the $6000.00 shillings the 10 owes you were the better. and the good got about is that my but these corrugated iron houses myself take 5 years for me to make the money back i invested in them because i generally put in a cement floor. because i can afford to their laundry taking the end you can't say in advance because you'll always have a couple of regulars 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 and of the wood they're probably out looking for work renters who are in a reus don't usually stay home during the day. to doing laundry agnus more of asia and is about one your a 50 but she needs 30 or as 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 house he would only unlock it again if we paid the rent and. she hasn't been able to pay the rent for 4 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 anymore 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 of it all the time because just anything can happen as he and enough will work while his son. agnes lives with her husband's children and grandchildren 8 people in one very large shack without a kitchen bath 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 looked ok and assured normally the children would be

going to school the oldest is already back at school but 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 how i don't get there 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 and taking. 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 i can't get anything from him. from my id and i'm now this renter moved out 6 months in arrears president corona pandemic over the place has been standing empty since. empty.

empty. i want to have enough money to paint the walls properly here i don't know if the government pays subsidies for landlords to renovate their houses got a friend to go without the rent from a lot of tenants who just can't pay them what they want you know they don't have any belongings that you can confiscate and so very often i end up empty handed with . some say while his tenants is struggling to survive the has no worries still his position is ambivalent he might leave his rent his alone for a few months but then send again to collect the payments by force either way people hang on to pendent and slum lords like him to. be able to. sleep.

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