There Is No Place for Us Quotes

“A conservative estimate of the actual number of people deprived of housing in the United States—those living in vehicles or hotel rooms, or staying temporarily with others, along with people in shelters or on the street—would be well over four million.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Someday, Carla thought, America would awaken to the immorality of allowing one of the most basic human necessities to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. “In this country,” she said, “it’s simply a fact of life that if you’re a renter, especially a poor renter, you’re always going to be at the mercy of a landlord who may or may not have an interest in keeping you housed. As soon as it becomes more lucrative for them to sell the property, or to raise the rent, or to get wealthier tenants in—if the market allows that, they’re going to follow the market.” Financial support was important. But Carla had grown convinced that what her clients really needed was not assistance per se. It was power. “Most people I work with, they don’t just feel hopeless. They feel powerless. Because they’re constantly subjected to forces beyond their control—even beyond their understanding.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“In a 2018 survey of extended-stay guests in Gwinnett County”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Nationwide”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“But since 1985, rent prices nationwide have exceeded income gains by 325 percent.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Taking in the scene”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Their house on Westover Drive had been riddled with structural and cosmetic problems”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Celeste then drove to the Fulton County courthouse”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Celeste posted on Facebook. “God we need you more than ever right now. Our house burned down and we’ve lost everything.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“This was the Candler Road name-dropped in lyrics by Gucci Mane”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“She enrolled in the associate degree Health and Human Services program at Ultimate Medical Academy”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“So determined were Maurice and Natalia to be exemplary tenants that they were always careful to send their rent check a couple of days early. They feared doing anything that could jeopardize their arrangement. Once they even went so far as to pay two months’ rent in advance”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Born of white flight in the 1960s and ’70s”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“she was neither bitter nor nostalgic. She just wanted to move into one of those units herself.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“She began incessantly checking and rechecking her email”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Roughly fourteen million poor renter households who qualified for housing assistance would never receive it. But everyone in Britt’s world knew at least one co-worker or cousin’s friend who had gotten a voucher. For these lucky few”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“The neighborhood’s rapid change was celebrated in media reports across the country”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“But this was before the Fair Housing Act was signed into law. A century of housing discrimination ensured that the path to homeownership remained closed to the majority of Black Americans.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“It used to be that owning a home was held up as the ultimate goal”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Driving around the nation’s richest cities”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Each January”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“In Boston”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“In Atlanta”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“The problem is not so much a lack of new housing as the kind of housing that is being built. Over the past decade”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“The ultimate signifier of this “new Atlanta” was the BeltLine”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Today there isn’t a single state”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Wearing slacks and a dark blazer”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Like many of us”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“In the richest country on earth, nobody—whether they work or have a disability or struggle with addiction or mental health challenges—should be deprived of stable shelter. Mass homelessness arose recently within our lifetimes. It’s worth reminding ourselves of this fact, because if it hasn’t always been like this, then a different kind of future is possible.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Every day in America, caseworkers are forced to turn homeless families away for not being “homeless” in the right way.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America