There Is No Place for Us

Goldstone spent years embedded with five Atlanta families, single mothers, a married couple, all with full-time jobs, who cycle through extended-stay motels, cars, and shelters despite steady paychecks, and the book's argument is that this is a distinct and undercounted category of homelessness invisible to official statistics because these families are never on the street. The reporting is granular rather than polemical: he follows wages, rents, and eviction filings alongside the daily logistics of holding down a job while unhoused, letting the mechanics of the housing market do the indicting. It's frequently and fairly compared to Matthew Desmond's Evicted for the same reason.