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Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, Brian Goldstone’s landmark work of journalism, There Is No Place for Us, exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America. This event is co-presented by United Way of King County.In this gripping and deeply reported book, Brian Goldstone plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a rapidly gentrifying, increasingly unequal city. 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: people with full-time jobs who cannot keep a roof over their head, thanks to skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights.
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. They exist in a shadow realm—unseen by most and omitted from official statistics. Yet they are 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.
Brian Goldstone is a journalist whose longform reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, The California Sunday Magazine, and Jacobin, among other publications. He has a PhD in anthropology from Duke University and was a Mellon Research Fellow at Columbia University. In 2021, he was a National Fellow at New America. He lives in Atlanta with his family.
United Way of King County, our co-presenter for this event, brings the community together to work toward racial justice by supporting our neighbors and transforming inequitable systems. Learn more.
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