http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/old/taxonomy/term/6540/0 fr http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/snowbirds-after-storm/20889 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> In post-crash Florida, Canadians are part of a growing class of landlords </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/florida_hi_res-0003.jpg" alt="" title="A sun-seeker feeds gulls on Hollywood Beach, an area of Florida known for its popularity among Canadian snowbirds. Just a few kilometers inland are low-income minority areas hit hard by the collapse and now targeted by real estate investors. PHOTO: Neal Rockwell." width="450" height="299" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/florida_hi_res-0001.jpg" alt="" title="&quot;We always be the renters,&quot; said South Middle River resident Tyrese Smith, 14. His Fort Lauderdale neighbourhood is part of a swath of South Florida, located between expressways, where subprime loans were concentrated. PHOTO: Neal Rockwell" width="450" height="299" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/florida_hi_res-0014.jpg" alt="" title="An excavator sits idle outside a derelict motel in Celebration, just outside of Orlando. In a state where Disney&#039;s Magic Kingdom exists just miles from urban slums, the collapse sheds strange subtropical light on the uneasy relationship between fantasy and reality. PHOTO: Neal Rockwell." width="450" height="299" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA&mdash;Corporations and wealthy investors have been buying up the glut of homes repossessed by banks since the subprime mortgage crisis began in the US in 2007, netting bungalows for the price of a pickup truck and then renting them back to locals.</p> <p><a href="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/snowbirds-after-storm/20889" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/snowbirds-after-storm/20889#comments David Gordon Koch Logement Florida foreclosures housing housing bubble landlords speculation Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:33:59 +0000 David Koch 20889 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca