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Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing Audiobook, by Andrew Ross Play Audiobook Sample

Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing Audiobook

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Read By: Ramón de Ocampo Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781250823786

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

12

Longest Chapter Length:

67:19 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

30 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

41:05 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

"De Ocampo's performance is admirable. It is well paced, and he employs voices and strategic pauses to good effect. In sum, both the writing and narration are first-class." - AudioFile Magazine 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. A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books.

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About Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and a social activist. He is a contributor to the New York Times, the London Guardian, and The Nation and the author of many books, including Cars and Jails, The Celebration Chronicles, Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City, and Nice Work If You Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times.

About Ramón de Ocampo

Ramón de Ocampo, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, was a cowinner in 2018 of the Audie Award for Best Multi-Voiced Performance. A graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, he has been seen on television, film, and stages all over the world, including recurring roles on such television shows as The West Wing, 12 Monkeys, Sons of Anarchy, and Medium. He is the winner of a prestigious Obie Award for his stage work.