17 houses in Pine Hills: A story of race in Orlando [Central Florida]
Ferdinand Drive is a short street of 17 houses in the most diverse, most dynamic, most maligned area in Metro Orlando: Pine Hills.
The history of Pine Hills is the story of race in Orlando, what this city used to be and how it has been shaped and reshaped over the decades by waves of people moving in and moving away.
Those 17 houses are Pine Hills in concentrated form. It is a place more than any other in Orlando that has gone from white, to mostly black, to increasingly immigrant. It is a place transformed by the dynamics of race and fear, hope and dreams.