لا مكان لنا: العاملون والمشردون في أمريكا

Among The New York Times and The Atlantic's Ten Best Books of the Year • Among Barack Obama's favorite books of the year • Through the "revealing and poignant" (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this groundbreaking work of journalism reveals a disturbing new trend—the dramatic rise in the number of homeless people working in America's cities. “An exceptional journalistic achievement, full of vitality that reminds us of the novels “Random Family” by Adrienne Nicole Leblanc and “Displaced” by Matthew Desmond.” -New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Award • Best Books of the Year from: NPR, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Elle, New America, Book Page, and Shelf Audience. Working homeless people. In a country where hard work and determination are assumed to be the key to success, this statement seems controversial. But skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have led to a troubling phenomenon: people with full-time jobs who cannot afford shelter, especially in America's booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are forced to become homeless not because of a collapsing economy, but because of a thriving economy. In this engaging and meticulously documented book, Brian Goldstone takes us on a journey into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to stay afloat in a city that is urbanizing and growing inequalities. Maurice and Natalia begin a new life in the country's "Black Mecca" after housing in Washington, D.C., becomes unaffordable. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while working as a floor cleaner in a government hospital. Britt receives a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is studying to become a social worker. Celeste struggles with her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them aspires to provide a decent life for his children, and one by one, each of them joins the ranks of the homeless working in the country. Through intimate narrative images, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis, following parents and their children as they sleep in their cars, or in cheap long-stay hotel rooms, and then head to work and school the next morning. These are the country's hidden homeless, whose names do not appear in official statistics, and evidence that overcrowded shelters and street camps are only the most visible manifestation of a more widespread problem. No Place for Us poignantly and tensely highlights the true scale, causes, and consequences of America's new homelessness phenomenon, showing that it will not be solved until housing is treated as a basic human right.