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Brian Goldstone

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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 https://bit.ly/thereisnoplaceforus

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Mar 25

After many years of reporting and writing, 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 deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.

A hardcover copy of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone. The black cover features a vertical strip with the title and a photo of Atlanta’s skyline.

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 7h

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2h

As a subscriber to @nybooks.com for more than a decade, it was pretty surreal to open the mail this morning and see this review of There Is No Place for Us in print.

A print copy of The New York Review of Books opened to "The Homeless We Don’t See" by Jay Neugeboren, a review of the book There Is No Place for Us.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 22h

Listen to our interview with @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on American homelessness:

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Kawika @datarules.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you so much, @brian-goldstone.bsky.social
This book is such a potent and data-driven masterpiece on what it means to be unhoused writ large, and working and homeless, in the U.S. And though I’m no longer unhoused 🙏 I still feel there is no place for us in an economy made for billionaires.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 18h

I'm so grateful for your kind words. This really means a lot.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 18h

Speaking of housing first, feds cutting supports for unhoused people in CA is a real telling illustration of their priorities.

California braces for ‘devastating’ expected cuts to federal homeless housing funds

Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing.

calmatters.org

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 20h

thank you so much!

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22h

Thrilled to see that Omar El Akkad's unflinching and utterly essential book has been named a finalist for the National Book Awards.

lithub.com/here-are-the...

Cover of Omar El Akkad's book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22h

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 23h

I'm feeling this more than ever since I moved to SLO. I'm a civil engineering professor with a good salary, and the rent on my modest (and slightly dated) 2br condo is FORTY percent of my take-home pay. And that's before utilities. How most people survive, esp single parents, is beyond me.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 23h

There are now two Americas when it comes to housing:

In one, people work multiple jobs and still can't afford a home.

In the other, housing isn't a place to live but a portfolio to grow.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Real estate investors bought one-third of all single-family residential homes sold in the second quarter of 2025.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 23h

Not sure if it's the piece you have in mind, but the great @katewagner.wehwalt.net has written brilliantly about this.

The McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse

The McMansion has survived financial crises and ecological catastrophes to become a monument to this country’s will to self-annihilation.

thebaffler.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, hard as it may be for DNC leadership to believe, voters *do* actually care about having a stable place to live.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 23h

It shouldn't be surprising anymore, but it still is: "Real estate investors bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025. That is an increase from 27% in the first quarter, and the highest percentage in the last five years."

Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years

Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025.

www.cnbc.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 23h

There are now two Americas when it comes to housing:

In one, people work multiple jobs and still can't afford a home.

In the other, housing isn't a place to live but a portfolio to grow.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Real estate investors bought one-third of all single-family residential homes sold in the second quarter of 2025.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Really sad to hear about the fire at Bookmiser, the amazing bookstore that was set to handle books for my Oct 21 talk. They're thankfully safe and continuing online sales while closed.

If you'd like to support them, please consider ordering There Is No Place for Us (or any book!) from bookmiser.net

Nearby fire shuts down beloved Cobb County bookstore

A longtime Cobb County bookstore is temporarily closed after smoke and soot from a neighboring business fire caused extensive damage.

www.fox5atlanta.com

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 2d

Jay Neugeboren on the rise in America of “hidden homelessness”: people who work full-time and have nowhere to live

The Homeless We Don’t See | Jay Neugeboren

As housing costs have risen and affordable housing remains in short supply, even Americans with full-time job are experiencing homelessness.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from reporting on my first labor protest in Africa! The SACCAWU domestic union, South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) & others are protesting labor conditions at Cosatwu house, Section 129 & the closure of my neighborhood Pick N Pay supermarke

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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 1d

It was a pleasure to join this conversation on HBCUs during CBC week. If you missed it, its now available on C-SPAN: www.c-span.org/program/publ...

Congressional Black Caucus Discussion on HBCU Challenges

Advocates for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU's) participated in a panel discussion on challenges facing the colleges and universities. Among the topics discussed were underfunding ...

www.c-span.org

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Great! Feel free to reach out at [email protected]

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Please note: protesters, clergy and a neighbor are also on this suit/also making claims here (it's a lot of reporters, but not only reporters!)

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

This loss of local PBS stations is so sad and infuriating.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

If you're in the Jacksonville area, I'll be speaking at Palms Presbyterian Church this Thursday evening, followed by a Q&A and book signing.

RSVP here: onrealm.org/Palms/Public...

A Evening with Brian Goldstone

Register to join us in the sanctuary for Brian Goldstone’s discussion about his new book. Doors open at 6:00 pm, the lecture starts at 6:30 p.m and will be followed by Q&A, a meet and greet…

palmschurch.org

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

Grateful to Jacksonville's NPR station, WJCT, for having me on this week to talk about There Is No Place for Us.

First Coast Connect: There is No Place for Us: Working and Homelessness in America author Brian Gol

YouTube video by WJCT Public Media

www.youtube.com

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