Andrew Ross: The Failure of American Housing

5313 Bay Shore Road,Sarasota FL 34243

09 March, 2022

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A guest lecture by Andrew Ross, based on his new book examining the current housing crisis as experienced in central Florida. "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." Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and a social activist. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, The Nation, and Al Jazeera, he is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including Bird On Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City, Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel, The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and Property Values in Disney's New Town, and Fast Boat to China: Lessons from Shanghai. His new book is Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing (Holt/Metropolitan Books). This lecture is sponsored by the Urban Studies Program at New College of Florida. Please note that masks (or face coverings) are expected on our campus.