{"product_id":"sunbelt-blues-the-failure-of-american-housing-paperback","title":"Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Ross\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eye-opening investigation of America's rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing portrait of precarious living in Disney World's backyard.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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, \u003ci\u003eSunbelt Blues\u003c\/i\u003e offers original insight into what is quickly becoming a full-blown national emergency.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Ross\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and a social activist. A contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, he is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Celebration Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNice Work if You Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.91 x 5.84 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766371254560,"sku":"9781250848895","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c9ed437b6a101b8b7203551ccbb8dda2.webp?v=1780291398","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sunbelt-blues-the-failure-of-american-housing-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}