Along the way, they take jobs from a slum lord, Krew, and Daxter meets his love interest, Tess.

"They were slum lords," he said.

"You're mighty uppity for a slum lord."

Hut communities, or slums, may be managed by slum lords, which may have access to water, but rarely sewer facilities.

But then his neighbors saw him take on a slum lord on the block.

Shieldtown is a bustling hub-city home to all sorts of people from the elites to the slum lords.

The proposed law, Ms. Lewis added, "is especially crippling in poor neighborhoods, where vacant lots, dilapidated buildings and slum lords abound."

Even the welfare office has the same flaking paint, and a mean childhood swindler has become a grown-up slum lord.

So far he'd written the slum lord sixty-one checks.

With property values low, many of the homes were bought by slum lords and converted into rental housing.