There is no place for us : working and homeless in America /
"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 r...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown,
[2025]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
LOW WAGE WORKERS
> CRISIS
> SOCIOLOGY OF URBAN AREAS
> POVERTY
> DISPLACEMENT
> GENTRIFICATION
> ATLANTA
> HOMELESS
> SOCIAL JUSTICE
> HOUSING
> JOURNALISM
> HUMAN RIGHTS
> GEOPOLITICS
> EVICTION
> FAMILIES
> ECONOMY
> INFLATION
> US GOVERNMENT
> CAPITALISM
> HOMELESSNESS
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| Summary: | "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. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country's 'Black Mecca' after being priced out of DC. 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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 420 pages : map ; 25 cm |
| Awards: | YBP Core 1000: Social Sciences, 2025 ; New York Review of Books: Nonfiction Trade, 2025 ; NYTB Main Reviews Non-fiction Trade, 2025 ; American Library Association Notable: Nonfiction, 2026 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-407) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780593237144 0593237145 9780593237168 0593237161 |