Description: Swamp Peddlers : How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream, Paperback by Vuic, Jason, ISBN 1469663333, ISBN-13 9781469663333, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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"--
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Book Title: Swamp Peddlers : How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Bui
Number of Pages: 268 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Swamp Peddlers : How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Subject: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Economics / General
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 13.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Science, Business & Economics, History
Author: Jason Vuic
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
