They say it is easy to find everything in Mumbai except for a house. For 35-year-old Agnelo Fernandez it could not have been truer. Fernandez and his wife live in a small one room tenement which is less than 180 square feet.
It is in this cramped room that they cook, bathe, entertain and sleep. They are not exactly poor but Fernandezs salary of $160 a month as a driver cannot get him anything better.
His neighbours - some of whom work as clerks, others run their own small business establishments - make similar money. Id like to move to a better place but with my salary I wont get anything better, Fernandez says.
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