The swamp peddlers : how lot sellers, land scammers, and retirees built modern Florida and transformed the American dream / Jason Vuic.
| Author/creator |
Vuic, Jason, 1972- |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021] |
| Description | 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles |
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| Abstract | "Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called 'installment land sales industry' appeared out of nowhere to hawk billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. As Jason Vuic recounts in this raucous history, these communities allowed generations of northerners to move to Florida cheaply, but at a price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; developers cleared forests, drained wetlands, and built thousands of miles of roads in grid-like subdivisions, which, fifty years later, played an inordinate role in the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020051337 |
| ISBN | 9781469663159 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781469663333 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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