Brian Goldstone
@brian_goldstone
author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • reporting and essays in @nytimes, @newrepublic, @Harpers, @jacobin, @CalSunday
After many years of work, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today. I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been denied one of the most basic human necessities.
I published two articles today. One was an incredibly personal essay about homicide, kidnapping and hunger in Ventura County, California, where I grew up, in @lithub lithub.com/what-ices-assa…
And massive investment on keeping this system going.
The boundary between "housed" and "unhoused" in America is brutally porous. Millions of people are one rent hike, one missed paycheck, one medical emergency away from homelessness. And there's massive investment in keeping that reality hidden.
To understand how @ZohranKMamdani won the mayoral primary by a full 12 points last month, it helps to understand how tenants like Ferdousi Begum and Parveg Hasan decided to go on the offensive against real estate. My first for @nybooks, learned so much! nybooks.com/online/2025/07…
I feel like we’re not living on the same planet. Why is no one doing anything. Why are people so unmoved.
Handing billions in tax incentives to real estate developers that make cities like Atlanta less and less affordable for middle and lower income people is at the heart of @brian_goldstone book "There Is No Place For Us."
i just finished this book and i think you should read it
"We have to go way beyond empathy in terms of how we respond to the truths in this book. The problem of homelessness is not about a lack of empathy. It's about power and who controls access to the basic necessities we all need." @curaffairs on THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US:
CONFIRMED: Arturo Suárez, the musician imprisoned by the Trump admin without due process in El Salvador for 4 months is FREE. He told his brother that while they were imprisoned, they were beaten daily by guards in CECOT. This is the first ever large release from CECOT.
Another man renditioned to El Salvador by the Trump admin has been identified as Arturo Suárez, a Venezuelan musician who first entered the US at a port of entry (not illegally). He has no criminal record here or in ANY country — but like Neri Alvarado and others, he has tattoos.
Big publishing week next week about the crises from Gaza to Oxnard. I'll have a new essay in LitHub and a new feature and short film in The Intercept
Read @Brian_Goldstone, see how the other half of #Atlanta lives: in extended-stay hotels, doubled up with other relatives, or being evicted for putting up a cousin with a criminal conviction for a few nights. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871/t…
Anyone who is engaged in housing discourse and advocacy should read THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US by Brian Goldstone. No book that I’ve read in recent years has faced the forces driving our homelessness and affordability crisis like this one. It’s an astounding feat of reporting.