00:00I'm trying to find the piece, the 20,000, and I say, even if it's with 10,000, I'm
00:05grateful to God.
00:07We pay monthly, but here you pay daily.
00:10That depends on the work you have available.
00:14What's even harder in this population of Pagadiarios is finding children unable to have breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
00:22that have gone more than 24 hours without food.
00:25Abandoned elderly people, let's say, don't have anyone to call, so you have to do something else.
00:32of process.
00:43In Bogotá, a capital city that welcomes thousands of people daily from different parts of the country and abroad
00:49country,
00:49Daily rentals have become a temporary housing solution, ranging from 7,000 to 20,000 pesos per day.
00:56Each day can offer options to any type of person.
00:59For Jenny Torrealba, 43, that option of just over 10 square meters has been for four
01:05years their way of life.
01:07His three-year-old daughter has grown up in a payday rental in Las Cruces, a town in Santa Fe.
01:12Like her, almost half of the users are migrants.
01:15I've been here for four years, because I'm here alone with my baby.
01:21My daughter's father killed me when I was five months pregnant.
01:25So, during the pregnancy I could do some things, of course, but with him, the emotions that
01:34He had the pregnancy, his thing.
01:36So, there was an aunt living here, an uncle of his, and the baby was already two months old, she couldn't
01:42I had already sold the odds and ends and that's all I had left.
01:46So, I had to come to a day.
01:49My name is Yoko Oima Belén Peñas Noye, I have been living here for nine months now, due to life's circumstances.
01:58I used to live in Soacha, but everything was too far away, so I moved a little closer to the city center for work.
02:02from my husband.
02:04My husband works downtown, in a Chinese one, and that's why we came here.
02:09Through a friend of my husband, who lives here, and who frequently told him it was very good, we...
02:15We came here.
02:17They're the normal areas with their children, and I rent to them by the month, but I pay, let's say, periodic payments, that is, payments
02:28partials.
02:29The smallest ones are the apartments.
02:33Vivieros and gordo pisos para la plaza, esto es la plaza.
02:36The most recent study indicates that Bogotá has more than 6,500 daily rentals or short-stay accommodations.
02:46where more than 14,200 people live in 18 locations in Bogotá.
02:5157% are located in Santa Fe, 14% in Mártires, 7% in Suba, 6% in La Candelaria, and 6% in Kennedy.
03:005%.
03:01More than half do not have a health system.
03:03In response to this situation, the Ministry of Health has deployed detection teams.
03:07Paola and Marcela are part of them.
03:10We have been working as such in the daily payday rentals since October of last year.
03:17The entire town of Santa Fe, Mártires, Rafael Uribe, Antonio Nariño.
03:21It is also carried out with the Venezuelan population that is not documented here in the country,
03:28that only has the original document.
03:31They cannot enroll in any type of health insurance plan.
03:35But what can be told is to approach the immigration section
03:39so that they can complete their residency permit process
03:42or the safe-conduct pass as such, as they tell you there.
03:45There are pregnant women who, if they can afford a room, don't have enough to eat.
03:49Most of them depend on going out to find their daily sustenance.
03:54They work in restaurants, in different activities, in car washes.
04:00Always in restaurants, everything that comes out of restaurants.
04:03But the problem is that I don't have anyone I trust to pick up my daughter from kindergarten.
04:08And the jobs one leaves at six, at seven.
04:12So, I do chores like washing up an errand, or cleaning up here for you,
04:17If I see the shopkeeper, he was unloading some things a while ago, I'll help him and that's how I win him over.
04:22Because I always try to find the piece, the twenty thousand.
04:25And I say, even if it's with ten thousand, I am grateful to God.
04:30And with that, like me with the baby, because it's just the two of us, you know.
04:33And thank God, even with ten thousand one can eat, no, one eats a lot, but one eats something.
04:39You don't get paid with an empty stomach, and you have to be grateful.
04:43We pay monthly, but here you pay daily.
04:46That depends on the work you do, your available resources.
04:50Well, I mean, everyone here has their own problems, but nobody interferes or anything.
04:56In other words, I lock myself in my room because I don't go out, I talk to my neighbors very little.
05:02But it's fine, I mean, it depends on the people you deal with or live with.
05:07But here it's good, especially the gentleman below, who is Mr. Mario, who is the one who
05:11listen,
05:12He doesn't complain about anything here.
05:14It has also been identified that the poorest households allocate only 24.8% of their spending to
05:21feeding
05:21and 53.2% allocated to paying for transport and accommodation,
05:26This shows that people prefer to pay for daily loans rather than feed themselves.
05:31Regarding coexistence, 85% of households perceive some type of domestic violence.
05:37It is a population that has no resources whatsoever, neither economic nor for health.
05:44In other words, they are completely vulnerable, and we should be paying more attention to this population.
05:49because sometimes they may not be high priorities,
05:54But they do become a high priority in due time.
05:59The hardest part is that many people don't know how to live together.
06:05They think that because it's a daily routine, we're going to leave the bathroom dirty, that I'm dirty.
06:12So if you tell him, I mean, that we're going to maintain it because this is a house,
06:17Yes, we pay, but this is our home, regardless of the difference.
06:21But in a way it's nice; I'd never had this experience of living in a pay-per-day rental before.
06:25The problems, when the neighbor has problems, sometimes you have to cover your ear.
06:36But well, one avoids it because one is in one's residence and each residence has its place.
06:41You can't go in that way or that way.
06:44Before we had the baby, we searched, and yet until before I searched,
06:49But here, give it to him, this way, no apartment, and my husband, so as not to vote him so far away,
06:55That's why I'm looking for the closest apartment that's within easy reach of his work.
06:58Let it be, not for me, but for my son's well-being, because a diary isn't easy, but neither
07:04stufis.
07:05To date, the health brigades have provided care to 9,916 people from 8,249 resident families
07:14in places with daily rates or short-stay accommodations,
07:17strengthening the identification of needs and risks of a population
07:21who has found in these places an option to have a roof over their heads when money only stretches to cover basic needs.
07:27one day.
07:35Thank you.
07:35Thank you.
