TRAILER: Dreams for Sale: Lehigh Acres and the Florida foreclosure crisis (2010)

[AirVengeance318]

I grew up here in the 80's. I was a first year student at the middle school. I recently had to go there for personal reasons and it was very sad. Every other house boarded up. The country club a waste land. The beautiful driving range just an over grown field. My grandmothers house that I grew up in boarded up and left to be demolished.

[paulomadeira1]

They would be still there keeping the homes, working and fueling the economy IF they could.I am very sorry to see this, specially in my case because I built a lot of these homes and I really cared for the community.

[paulomadeira1]

If the immigration law /reform had passed, I mean if the immigrants had been given a chance to be legal citizens this would not have happened. A LOT of the population in Lehigh was from Latin America, specially from Brazil who love the USA and gave their blood (literally) to be living in the USA. Without the chance to become a legal citzen, with all the difficulties of the economy crises and without even being able to drive a car (for documentation reasons) they had to leave.

[skitskatmeerkat1]

I'm interested in buying a property down south. Just as a vacation home. Not too sure if I wanna buy there