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January 27, 2012

Hard-hit Florida town tough on candidates

  • Frustrations over the housing crisis and the federal government's seeming inability to help has turned into apathy at best, and rage, at worst.
    • By TAMARA LUSH
    Associated Press

    LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — At Our Daily Bread Food Pantry, the conversation often centers on real estate. Once taboo details — home values and what people paid for their properties — are casually discussed, and there appears to be little shame in walking away from a mortgage or fighting the bank on a foreclosure.

    With Florida's Republican presidential primary just days away, the talk has turned to politics. At the food pantry and throughout hard-hit Lehigh Acres, frustrations over the housing crisis and the federal government's seeming inability to help has turned into apathy at best, and rage, at worst.


     
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