TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ross,Andrew
TI  - Sunbelt blues: the failure of American housing 
SN  - 9781250848895 (paperback) :
AV  - HD7303 .F6 R67 2021
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
KW  - Housing policy
KW  - Florida
KW  - Osceola County
KW  - Housing
KW  - Low-income housing
KW  - Real estate investment
KW  - Working poor
KW  - Osceola County (Fla.)
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 21st century.
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-256) and index
N2  - "...The single worst place 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, absentee investors snatch up foreclosed properties to turn into extravagant vacation homes for affluent visitors, destroying affordable housing in the process. At the other, underpaid theme park workers, displaced families, and disabled and elderly people subsisting on government checks are technically homeless, living crammed into dilapidated, roach-infested motels or even in tent camps in the woods. Through visceral, frontline reporting from the motels and encampments dotting central Florida, renowned sociologist Andrew Ross exposes the overlooked housing crisis sweeping America's suburbs and rural areas, where residents suffer ongoing trauma, poverty, and nihilism..."--WorldCat
ER  -