Pipeline Estate sits right next to Nairobi's airport, and it looks like absolute chaos with all these cramped high-rise apartment buildings jammed together. The whole neighborhood got built up over the past couple of decades when developers threw up cheap rental units for people moving into the city. Each building has like 200 to 300 tenants crammed in there.
Researchers spent time talking to folks living in these spots and found that dudes and women handle stress completely differently. The guys feel this intense pressure to provide money for their families, so they cope by hitting bars, cheating on their partners, or getting aggressive. Meanwhile, women just feel exhausted all the time and mostly deal with it by staying inside watching TV or doing housework since they can't really act out without losing financial support from men.
The place has running water and electricity, which beats living in slums, but everything else is privatized and costs money. Most people there are broke or working dead-end jobs, and the government housing programs focus on buying homes instead of fixing rental situations, even though almost everyone in Nairobi rents.
Researchers spent time talking to folks living in these spots and found that dudes and women handle stress completely differently. The guys feel this intense pressure to provide money for their families, so they cope by hitting bars, cheating on their partners, or getting aggressive. Meanwhile, women just feel exhausted all the time and mostly deal with it by staying inside watching TV or doing housework since they can't really act out without losing financial support from men.
The place has running water and electricity, which beats living in slums, but everything else is privatized and costs money. Most people there are broke or working dead-end jobs, and the government housing programs focus on buying homes instead of fixing rental situations, even though almost everyone in Nairobi rents.
