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092    363.510975|bROS 
100 1  Ross, Andrew,|d1956-|eauthor. 
245 10 Sunbelt blues :|bthe failure of American housing /|cAndrew
       Ross. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bMetropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company,
       |c2021. 
300    268 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-254) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tIntroduction --|tA Motel Is Not a Home --|tReluctant 
       Landlords --|tDopesick and Homesick --|tForty-Acre Wood --
       |tThe Disney Price --|tWall Street Comes to Town --|tYour 
       Home Can Be a Hotel --|tThe Battle of Split Oak --
       |tConclusion: Homes for All. 
520    "Today, a minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom 
       apartment in only 28 out of 3,140 counties in America. 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. 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. 
       Immersive and compassionate, Sunbelt Blues finds in 
       Osceola County a bellwether for the future of homelessness
       in America"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Housing|zFlorida|zOsceola County. 
650  0 Working poor|zFlorida|zOsceola County. 
650  0 Low-income housing|zFlorida|zOsceola County. 
650  0 Real estate investment|zFlorida|zOsceola County. 
650  0 Housing policy|zFlorida|zOsceola County. 
651  0 Osceola County (Fla.)|xEconomic conditions|y21st century. 
651  0 Osceola County (Fla.)|xSocial conditions|y21st century.