Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

Author:	Ross, Andrew
Binding:	Hardcover
List Price:	$37.99
Our Price:	$1.95 CAD
Sale Price:	0.90 CAD
Qty Avail:	113

Additional Info
Overview

ISBN:	9781250804228
Publisher:	Metropolitan Books
Language:	English
Page Count:	268
Publication Date:	10/26/2021
Size:	9.53" l x 6.34" w x 1.07"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Social Science	Poverty
Social Science	Social Classes
Political Science	Government

An eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing portrait of precarious living in Disney World's backyard.

Today, a minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom apartment in only 145 out of 3,143 counties in America. One of the very worst places in the United States to look for affordable housing is Osceola County, Florida.

Once the main approach to Disney World, where vacationers found lodging on their way to the Magic Kingdom, the fifteen-mile Route 192 corridor in Osceola has become a site of shocking contrasts. At one end, global investors snatch up foreclosed properties and park their capital in extravagant vacation homes for affluent visitors, eliminating the county’s affordable housing in the process. At the other, underpaid tourist industry workers, displaced families, and disabled and elderly people subsisting on government checks cram themselves into dilapidated, roach-infested motels, or move into tent camps in the woods.

Through visceral, frontline reporting from the motels and encampments dotting central Florida, renowned social analyst Andrew Ross exposes the overlooked housing crisis sweeping America’s suburbs and rural areas, where residents suffer ongoing trauma, poverty, and nihilism. As millions of renters face down evictions and foreclosures in the midst of the COVID-19 recession, Andrew Ross reveals how ineffective government planning, property market speculation, and poverty wages have combined to create this catastrophe. Urgent and incisive, Sunbelt Blues offers original insight into what is quickly becoming a full-blown national emergency.

NOTE: Blowouts are sold as is. Any pre-existing retail labels will not be removed and there may be some additional shelf wear showing on the product. Product with excessive damage will not be shipped. Titles are in fair to like-new, sellable condition. Book Depot does not accept damage claims against Blowouts.