Brian Goldstone
Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • essays and reporting in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic, Jacobin & elsewhere
bit.ly/thereisnoplaceforus
- A new report finds the bottom 60% of U.S. households—or *two-thirds* of the population—can't afford a “minimal quality of life": housing, health care, and other necessities. "Indicators like GDP and unemployment tell us the economy is thriving. But they don’t reflect the reality of most Americans."
- You can be evicted for: calling 911 too many times; being wrongly accused of shoplifting; having a son with a disability who needs help; being a victim of domestic violence. This is "crime-free housing" in America. A searing, crucial investigation by Sidnee King Pineda:
- "So what do you think Democrats can learn from somebody who, like you, targets the most vulnerable among us? People have been very hard on you, but I think at the end of the day, we all really just want the same thing."
- Demonizing homeless people isn't some sort of heroic truth-telling. It's a political tactic meant to divert attention from the poverty wages, unaffordable housing, and engineered neglect that created America's homelessness crisis.
- Reposted by Brian GoldstoneI can imagine this is a very different way of connecting with the book and the stories - perhaps more visceral
- I've been meaning to say something about the audiobook of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US, narrated by the incredible, award-winning Dion Graham. His voice brings a whole new depth to the book—steady, intimate, emotionally attuned. If you prefer listening to reading, I hope you'll check it out.
- Reposted by Brian Goldstonepulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years
- You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- Cities won't fund housing—but they *will* fund cops to arrest people for the crime of having nowhere to live.
- Read this headline, then read it again. Starving civilians "by design." 116,000 metric tons of food assistance—enough for 1 million people—waiting at the border. Israel won't allow it in.
