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There Is No Place for Us

Book cover for the There is No Place for Us collaged together with a portraits of the author and panelist

with Brian Goldstone and Eve L. Ewing

Brian Goldstone, photo by Elaine Brown Goldstone. Eve L. Ewing, photo by Nolis Anderson.

  • National Public Housing Museum, 919 S. Ada Street, Chicago, IL 60607

  • Free

Join Build Coffee & Books and the National Public Housing Museum as we welcome Brian Goldstone to Chicago to discuss his important new book, There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.

Skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America’s booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one.

In this gripping and deeply reported book, Brian Goldstone plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city.

Brian will be joined in discussion by Eve L. Ewing. Book signing to follow.

FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance.


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