03410cam a2200373 4500 2090759984 TxAuBib 20250409120000.0 241004s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593237144 hardcover 0593237145 hardcover TxAuBib Goldstone, Brian, author. There is no place for us : working and homeless in America / Brian Goldstone. New York : Crown, [2025] xxi, 420 pages : maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-407) and index. "Through the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend-the dramatic rise of the "working homeless" in cities across America"-- Provided by publisher. 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 tenants' rights have produced a startling phenomenon: people with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their heads, 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. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country's "Black Mecca" after being priced out of D.C. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while mopping floors at a public hospital. Britt scores a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is in school to become a social worker. Celeste toils at her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them aspires to provide a decent life for their children--and each of them, one by one, joins the ranks of the nation's working homeless. Through intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation's hidden homeless--omitted from official statistics and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem. 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. 20250409. Homelessness United States. Homelessness. Homeless children. Homeless families. Homeless persons. Poverty United States. Economics United States. Economics Moral and ethical aspects. Economics Sociological aspects. Rental housing. Finance United States. Financial crises United States History 21st century. Social issues.