New Review

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

By Brian Goldstone

Focusing on the lives of several families in Atlanta, Goldstone paints an unflinching portrait of parents who hold down jobs as home health aides, cashiers, and service workers, yet sleep in cars, extended-stay motels, or temporary shelters. His reporting dismantles persistent myths about homelessness as a condition only of joblessness or addiction. Instead, he reveals how rising rents, stagnant wages, and systemic inequities have created a class of “working homeless” Americans, people striving, contributing, and still unable to afford a home.