A place like Orlando, Florida is not transformed from swampland to
sprawling metropolis through Peter Pan-like flights of fancy, but
through theme park expansions requiring developmental schemes that
are tough minded and often worsen relationships between the wealthy
and the poor. The homeless arrive with their own hopes and
illusions, which are soon shattered. The rest of the local
population makes its peace with the system. Meanwhile the homeless
are reduced to advocacy models that neither middle- nor
working-class folks much worry about. They are modern members of
Ellison's "invisible men" but they comprise a racial and social
mixture unlike any other in the American landscape.
This book is primarily about the dark side of this
portrait--the poor, near-poor, homeless, and dispossessed who live
in the midst of this verdant landscape. The phrase "down and out,"
has been used to describe people who are destitute or penniless
since the late nineteenth century. Here the term is used in a more
expansive sense, as synonymous with anyone who lives near, at, or
over the edge of financial catastrophe.
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