There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Journal-Constitution, Elle, New America, BookPage, Shelf Awareness. The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America’s booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one. In this gripping and deeply reported book, Brian Goldstone plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city… By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place for Us illuminates the true magnitude, causes, and consequences of the new American homelessness—and shows that it won’t be solved until housing is treated as a fundamental human right.
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- bsky .app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mpuhvderrc2c (‘ 🧵Christopher Webb, I’m reading There Is No Place for Us, by 🔗Brian Goldstone and one thing keeps hitting me over and over: 🔗Homelessness is rarely a single event. It’s a cascade. A cancer diagnosis. A lost job. Depression. A missed paycheck. A broken car. A wait for 🔗mental healthcare. An eviction. The system expects people to experience hardship one problem at a time. Real life doesn’t work that way. People grieve while paying bills. Parent while searching for 🏘️apartments. Work while falling apart. And one bad month can erase years of stability… Homelessness does not simply mean living on the street. It means motel rooms. Living with relatives. Sleeping on couches. Packing five people into one bedroom. Constantly wondering where you’ll be next month… when the reality is that many homeless families are working, raising children, battling illness, mourning loved ones, and doing everything society tells them to do. The people in this book are not irresponsible. They’re carrying more than any human being should have to carry alone. The real lie we tell ourselves is that homelessness only happens to other people. For millions of Americans, it is simply what happens when every margin for error disappears at the same time. ‘)
- briangoldstone .net/selected-writing-1 (‘ America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness, The New York Times; The New American Homeless, The New Republic; 3 Kids. 2 Paychecks. No Home. The California Sunday Magazine; A Prayer’s Chance, Harper’s Magazine; No Shelter Here, The New Republic; The Pain Refugees, Harper’s Magazine… ‘)
- marchehua .com/product/state-art-11×22-picture-frame-black-metal-poster-frame (‘ …We turn a blind eye in order to feel safe, to avoid conflict, to reduce anxiety, and to protect prestige. But 🦠greater understanding leads to 🔗solutions, and Margaret Heffernan shows how-by challenging our biases, encouraging debate, discouraging conformity, and not backing away from difficult or complicated problems-we can be more mindful of what’s going on around us and be proactive instead of reactive. ‘)
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