“I believe very strongly that finding a solution to the housing crisis requires an accurate appraisal of the magnitude and severity of what we’re facing, and a proper diagnosis of what brought us here.”

—Brian Goldstone

Brian Goldstone is a journalist, an anthropologist, and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, an “exceptional feat of reporting” (The New York Times) which exposes the dramatic rise of the “working homeless” in cities across America.

Today there isn’t a single state, metropolitan area, or county in the United States where a full-time worker earning the local minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom apartment. In this “gripping, high-stakes account of America’s housing emergency” (Publisher’s Weekly), Goldstone plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city where urban “revitalization” comes at the expense of its low-income residents. Following parents and children as they go to sleep in cars and in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms before heading out to their jobs and schools the next morning, There Is No Place for Us shows in heartbreaking detail that this new American homelessness won’t be solved until housing is treated as a fundamental human right.

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

Goldstone initially reported on Atlanta housing in the 2019 New Republic article “The New American Homeless.” His long-form reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The California Sunday Magazine, Guernica, Jacobin, and Public Books. He has written on such topics as mental health in Ghana, life after incarceration, the plight of chronic pain sufferers during an opioid epidemic, and Israel’s secretive campaign to deport African asylum seekers. Goldstone received his PhD in cultural anthropology from Duke University. He was a Luce/ACLS Fellow in Journalism, Religion & International Affairs; his post-doctoral work at Columbia University included a Mellon Research Fellowship in the Society of Fellows as well as a Justice-in-Education Fellowship, during which he taught at Sing Sing Prison. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from Fulbright, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies.