我们无处可去：在美国的工作与无家可归There Is No Place for Us:Working and Homeless in AmericaBrian Goldstone

基本信息

ISBN：9780593237168

Published on：Mar 03, 2026

Published by：Crown

Pages：448

Dimensions：5-3/16 x 8

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

通过亚特兰大五个家庭令人难忘的故事，这部具有里程碑意义的新闻作品揭露了一个令人不安的新趋势——美国各城市“无家可归的工作人员”的急剧崛起

无家可归的工作人员。在一个认为努力工作和决心会带来成功的国家，这句话有些令人反感。但飞涨的租金、低工资和缺乏租户权利已经产生了一个令人震惊的现象：有全职工作的人无法维持住所，尤其是在美国蓬勃发展的城市，这些城市的快速增长正在导致灾难性的流离失所。这些家庭被迫无家可归，不是因为经济衰退，而是因为经济繁荣。

在这本引人入胜、深度报道的书中，布莱恩·戈德斯通让读者深入了解亚特兰大五个家庭的生活，他们在这座中产阶级化、日益不平等的城市中挣扎求生。莫里斯和娜塔莉亚在因房价过高而被赶出华盛顿后，在这个国家的“黑色麦加”重新开始。卡拉梦想着在公立医院拖地板的同时创办自己的清洁生意。布里特获得了令人垂涎的住房券。米歇尔正在学校里成为一名社会工作者。塞莱斯特在接受卵巢癌治疗的同时，还在仓库工作中辛苦工作。他们每个人都渴望为自己的孩子提供体面的生活，而他们每个人都一一加入了国家无家可归者的行列。

通过亲密、新颖的肖像，戈德斯通揭示了这场危机给人类造成的损失，跟踪父母和他们的孩子在车里或肮脏的长住酒店房间里睡觉，然后第二天早上去上班和上学。这些人是这个国家隐藏的无家可归者——官方统计数据中没有提及，这证明收容所和街头营地的人满为患只是一个更为普遍的问题的明显表现。

《我们无处容身》时而令人心碎，时而紧迫，阐明了美国新的无家可归现象的真实规模、原因和后果，并表明，只有将住房视为一项基本人权，这个问题才能得到解决。

故事地点：佐治亚州亚特兰大

Through the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the “working homeless” in cities across America

The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But 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 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. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country’s “Black Mecca” after being priced out of DC. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while mopping floors at a public hospital. Britt scores a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is in school to become a social worker. Celeste toils at her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them aspires to provide a decent life for their children—and each of them, one by one, joins the ranks of the nation’s working homeless.

Through intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation’s hidden homeless—omitted from official statistics, and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem.

By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place for Us illuminates the true magnitude, causes, and consequences of the new American homelessness—and shows that it won’t be solved until housing is treated as a fundamental human right.

Story Locale:Atlanta, Georgia

作者简介

布莱恩·戈德斯通 (Brian Goldstone) 是一名记者，他的长篇报道和文章曾发表在《哈珀杂志》、《新共和》、《加州星期日杂志》和《雅各宾》等出版物上。他拥有杜克大学人类学博士学位，并曾是哥伦比亚大学梅隆大学研究员。 2021年，他成为新美国国家研究员。他与家人住在亚特兰大。作者居住地：佐治亚州亚特兰大作者家乡：佐治亚州亚特兰大

Brian Goldstone is a journalist whose longform reporting and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, The California Sunday Magazine, and Jacobin, among other publications. He has a PhD in anthropology from Duke University and was a Mellon Research Fellow at Columbia University. In 2021, he was a National Fellow at New America. He lives in Atlanta with his family.Author Residence: Atlanta, GAAuthor Hometown: Atlanta, GA