Dissent | Crown
While the public response to homelessness remains squarely focused on managing its most visible manifestations, another story is unfolding in what journalist and researcher Brian Goldstone calls a “shadow realm” in his incisive new book, There Is No Place for Us. Goldstone focuses on a largely invisible and growing group of people: the working homeless. These are people for whom full-time work, even overtime, provides too little to survive in a world with rising rents, insufficient and unreliable public transit, expensive and unavailable child and healthcare, and a legal system that allows landlords to operate with impunity.