Police are carrying out door-to-door inquiries in Brixton
Two of the three women found last month in an alleged slavery case in London met the man who has been arrested via a "collective", police say.
Officers said a couple arrested in the case came to the UK from India and Tanzania in the 1960s.
They said a 30-year-old woman also found has a birth certificate but no other official papers.
Police are making house-to-house inquiries in the Brixton area of south London as part of the investigation.
Inquiries are thought to be being carried out in Peckford Place.
The alleged victims - a 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman - are now in the care of a specialist non-governmental organisation after they were rescued from what police said was a "residential address" last month.
'Shared political ideology'
The case came to light after the Irish woman rang the Freedom Charity to say she had been held against her will.
A couple, both aged 67 and thought to be married, were arrested on Thursday.
Police have not yet revealed what they have been arrested on suspicion of.
In a statement, Cdr Steve Rodhouse of the Metropolitan Police, said: "We believe that two of the victims met the male suspect in London through a shared political ideology, and that they lived together at an address that you could effectively call a 'collective'."
He said when the women were removed from the house on 25 October it was agreed "that police would not at that stage take any action".
"Since that date we have been working to gain their trust and evidence, that came to fruition on 21 November when we were in a position to make arrests," he said.
"Between the 25 October and 21 November none of the three victims were reported missing to the police."
Aneeta Prem, founder of Freedom Charity, said: "We have seen an extraordinary rise in calls to our helpline since the rescue of the three women came into the public domain.
"We received five times as many calls in 24 hours as we normally do in one week and are needing to increase our resources to cope with this extra demand.
"These women have had traumatic and distributing experiences, which they have revealed to us.
"What needs to happen now is that the three victims, who have begun a long process of recovery, are able to go through their rehabilitation undisturbed, without being identified."
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