{"product_id":"theres-no-place-for-us","title":"There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America Paperback – March 3, 2026 by Brian Goldstone (Author)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eONE OF THE\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAND\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE ATLANTIC’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eS TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“An exceptional feat of reporting, full of an immediacy that calls to mind Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eRandom Family\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand Matthew Desmond’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEvicted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e(Editors’ Choice)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL, THE\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBOOK PRIZE, AND THE BERNSTEIN AWARD • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Elle, New America, BookPage, Shelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe working homeless.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ethriving\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns heartbreaking and urgent, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThere Is No Place for Us\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52904756347196,"sku":"9780593237168","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0273\/2005\/files\/71n0tkthwJL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774021778","url":"https:\/\/frugalbookstore.net\/products\/theres-no-place-for-us","provider":"Frugal Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}