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  "description": "Brian Goldstone uses the stories of several families in Atlanta to methodically and compassionately examine the plight of the working poor in America. It's a story of families doing everything they can to stay housed, fighting against a system designed to set them up for failure and exploitation. These families work, they work more hours in a week than I do and remain trapped in situations where they may not have a place to stay for the next week or even the next day. Homelessness isn't a choice, it's a situation created by a society that prizes profits above people and one in which lip service is paid to charities and reputation-building in a transparent effort to hide this dynamic. It's a problem that's worse than it's typically understood to be because systems used to account for the homeless in America are meticulously designed to undercount and mask the reality of the problem. This is an ongoing failure of public institutions to protect the people they serve and a market that preys on this failure. In a country this rich, it is criminal that anyone is unhoused, that anyone goes hungry and that anyone is not provided with a dignified standard of care and service. The stories in There Is No Place for Us are sobering. This is an essential read and requires that we all work towards addressing a situation that never should have become possible in the first place.",
  "path": "/reading/books/9780593237144/there-is-no-place-for-us",
  "publishedAt": "2025-11-22T00:00:00Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:sttgf52vkk46f6yuknvqxvgh/site.standard.publication/self",
  "tags": [
    "social science"
  ],
  "title": "There Is No Place for Us"
}