Officials say unpaid rent and service charges in the black township exceed $100 million.
The unpaid rents and services in such black townships now range from $150 to $1,500 per household.
However, by 1887 the News had gone bankrupt and their stock in trade was sold to settle unpaid rent.
But the same judge also ordered her to account for the $4,802 in unpaid rent.
The landlord's only response was to add their unpaid rent to the following month's bill.
Is there any way for me to take such a person to court to recover unpaid rent?
And they might not be able to recover unpaid rent either, she added.
One month's rent unpaid can turn into falling two or three months behind, then eviction.
Did they fear we would try to collect on unpaid rent?
But this figure is well above the 10.6% average of 2010, and takes the total unpaid rent to £277m.