There Is No Place for Us

Praise

“There Is No Place for Us is a book of unusual power and range. Each page is propelled by the integrity of Brian Goldstone’s careful labor, tracking people who must fight an American madness, as the stakes keep getting raised. The facts are a devastation, and a calling.”—Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family

“In this brilliant book, Brian Goldstone lays bare the hidden disaster of housing precarity among America’s low-wage workers. . . . May it move you to act so that we, as a society, might finally shelter all who need it.”—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit

“Brian Goldstone has done something remarkable: distilled clearly, in compelling narrative form, so much of what has gone wrong in America since the 1970s. The heartbreaking brutality and inhumanity of the world he depicts will shock many readers—as it should. If you read one book this year—or this decade—it should be There Is No Place for Us.”—Adelle Waldman, author of Help Wanted

“A spellbinding and unflinching portrait of five American families working full-time yet still unable to secure stable housing. The writing is as immersive as documentary. And be warned: this book will devastate you and then set your spirit ablaze.”—Antonia Hylton, author of Madness

“Deeply reported and written with an empathy that brims from every page, There Is No Place for Us is an epic account of crippling inequity, capitalist predation, and inert bureaucracy. . . . [Goldstone] has pulled off a rare and stunning narrative feat.”—Jonathan Blitzer, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

“A crucial, masterful book that will change the national conversation about homelessness . . . Poignant and infuriating, [it] reveals the tragic myths embedded in the stories we tell ourselves about working hard in America.”—Rachel Aviv, author of Strangers to Ourselves

“Brian Goldstone’s blistering investigation into the true scope of America’s ballooning homelessness crisis beautifully depicts the tenacity and heart of several vulnerable families struggling to survive in a system that refuses to help them.”—Roxanna Asgarian, author of We Were Once a Family

“A tremendous achievement in reporting, in narration, in emotional and intellectual understanding. Brian Goldstone’s book will stand with J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground and other works that tell the story of our country by telling the stories of our fellow citizens.”—James Fallows, author of Our Towns

“A model of ethical journalism . . . [Goldstone] trains an empathetic eye on families that are struggling in an increasingly gentrified city. . . . Make a place for this book alongside Jane Jacobs’ classic Death and Life of Great American Cities.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Harrowing . . . Goldstone weaves a richly detailed narrative of his subjects’ increasingly desperate struggles. . . . It’s a gripping, high-stakes account of America’s housing emergency.”—Publishers Weekly

“There Is No Place for Us belongs on the shelf next to Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Evicted. . . . A must-read for anyone with interest in social sciences, equity, and one of the defining American crises of our time.”—BookPage, starred review