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\nBri an Goldstone is a journalist\, anthropologist\, and author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. Told through the l ives of five families in Atlanta\, the book traces the rise of America&rsq uo\;s &ldquo\;working homeless\,&rdquo\; exposing the forces&mdash\;gentri fication\, racialized displacement\, precarious low-wage labor&mdash\;fuel ing a deepening crisis of housing insecurity. The book won the 2026 Pulitz er Prize for General Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It w as also \;a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonficti on\, named one of the 10 Best Books of \;2025 \;by \;The N ew York Times \;and \;The Atlantic\, and \;selec ted as one of Barack Obama&rsquo\;s favorite books of the year.
\nBr ian is currently Writer in Residence at Duke University and a fellow with the Watchdog Writers Group. He holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from D uke. In 2021\, he was a National Fellow at New America\; prior to this\, h e was a Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia Unive rsity. \;He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Luce F oundation\, Fulbright\, the Wenner-Gren Foundation\, and the American Coun cil of Learned Societies. \;In 2015-2016\, \;as a Justice-in-Educa tion Fellow at Columbia\, \;he taught at Sing Sing prison. \;
\ nThe working homeless. In a country where hard work and determ ination are supposed to lead to success\, there is something scandalous ab out this phrase. But skyrocketing rents\, low wages\, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs c annot keep a roof over their head\, especially in America&rsquo\;s booming cities\, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. Thes e families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one.
\nIn this gripping and deeply reported book\, Brian Goldstone plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggl ing to remain housed in a gentrifying\, increasingly unequal city. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Black Mecc a&rdquo\; after being priced out of DC. Kara dreams of starting her own cl eaning 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&m dash\;and each of them\, one by one\, joins the ranks of the nation&rsquo\ ;s working homeless.
\nThrough intimate\, novelistic portraits\, Gol dstone 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 room s\, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation&rsquo\;s hidden homeless&mdash\;omitted from official statistics\, and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the m ost visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem.
\nBy turn s heartbreaking and urgent\, There Is No Place for Us illuminates the true magnitude\, causes\, and consequences of the new American homele ssness&mdash\;and shows that it won&rsquo\;t be solved until housing is tr eated as a fundamental human right.
\n&ldquo\;There Is N o Place for Us is an exceptional feat of reporting\, full of an immediacy that calls to mind Adrian Nicole LeBlanc&rsquo\;s Random Family and Matthe w Desmond&rsquo\;s Evicted... This is a moving book. It is also appropriat ely enraging.&rdquo\; (New York Times)
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