{"product_id":"there-is-no-place-for-us-working-and-homeless-in-america","title":"There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC'S 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An exceptional feat of reporting, full of an immediacy that calls to mind Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family and Matthew Desmond's Evicted.\"--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Elle, New America, BookPage, Shelf Awareness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place for Us 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\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47722029416611,"sku":"9780593237168","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/8588\/4579\/files\/9780593237168.jpg?v=1780186403","url":"https:\/\/www.bellhousebooks.com\/products\/there-is-no-place-for-us-working-and-homeless-in-america","provider":"Bell House Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}