Joseph arranged things so that his brothers and family received favourable treatment. The brothers said they were shepherds, as Joseph had instructed them to do, and Pharaoh gave them the land of Goshen. Jacob also blessed Pharaoh.
The famine got progressively worse and caused increasing difficult for the people. The people came to Joseph for help. In the first year he took their livestock in exchange for grain.
This saw them through for one year. So the next year Joseph took their land in exchange for grain. So there is a gradual enslavement of the people happening, with everything belonging to Pharaoh. However, the people were grateful to Joseph for "saving" them. The people had to pay a 20% tax to Pharaoh.
Jacob, meanwhile, made Joseph promise to take his bones back to Israel when they would eventually return there.
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