There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone

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There Is No Place for Us exposes a startling and scandalous phenomenon reshaping American cities: the rise of the "working homeless," people with full-time jobs who still cannot afford a home. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to guarantee stability, journalist and anthropologist Brian Goldstone reveals how skyrocketing rents, stagnant wages, and a near-total absence of tenant protections have pushed families into homelessness not because the economy is failing, but because it is booming — with rapid urban growth driving catastrophic displacement in precisely the cities experiencing the most prosperity.

Over six years of immersive, deeply intimate reporting, Goldstone follows five Atlanta families — steadily employed as restaurant workers, cleaners, health aides, and warehouse staff — as one crisis after another, a rent hike, a layoff, a medical bill, a resold utility charge, pushes them out of stable housing and into extended-stay motels, doubled-up apartments, or their own cars, all while their children still go to school and they still go to work the next morning. Because they aren't on the streets or in shelters, these families often aren't even officially counted as homeless, rendering their crisis largely invisible to policy and public awareness alike. Written with the immediacy and narrative depth that critics have compared to Matthew Desmond's Evicted and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family, There Is No Place for Us is a searing, essential work of narrative nonfiction that reveals an America hiding in plain sight.

Why Choose This Book?

• Winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction: Recognized as one of the most significant works of journalism of its year.
• Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: Also a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Bernstein Award.
• Named a Best Book of 2025: Selected by The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, and The Washington Post, among many others.
• Deeply human, novelistic storytelling: Compared to Matthew Desmond's Evicted for its intimacy and narrative power.
• Six years of immersive reporting: Goldstone's PhD-level anthropological rigor grounds every family's story in genuine, sustained trust.

About the Author: Brian Goldstone

Brian Goldstone is a journalist and anthropologist whose longform reporting has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, and Jacobin, among other publications. He holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University and has held fellowships with Columbia University's Society of Fellows, New America, and the Watchdog Writers Group. There Is No Place for Us is his debut book.

Who Should Read This Book?

• Readers interested in housing policy, poverty, and economic inequality in America
• Fans of narrative nonfiction like Evicted and Random Family
• Anyone concerned with the hidden realities behind official homelessness statistics
• Students and scholars of urban studies, sociology, and public policy
• Book club groups seeking a timely, discussion-worthy social issues read

Please note: this book discusses themes including poverty, housing instability, and serious illness, and may be an intense read for some.

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Order now and confront one of America's most urgent hidden crises with There Is No Place for Us — Brian Goldstone's Pulitzer Prize-winning, unforgettable account of families working hard yet unable to find a home.