There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

by Brian Goldstone

Recent research reveals that the actual number of those experiencing homelessness in the United States, factoring in those living in cars or hotel rooms or doubled up with other people, is at least six times larger than the official figure.

Even on the off chance that “cheap” was actually cheap (as opposed to relatively cheap), cheap was other things too. Cheap was busted security gates and shards of glass on decaying playgrounds. It was rats and leaking sewage. It was—to take an example from her childhood—your mother covering your body with her own in an empty bathtub while shots rang out.