There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Brian Goldstone, Crown Publishing Group, £23

BRIAN GOLDSTONE  tells us how we are all familiar the stigmatised homeless — “stumble-bum” winos, drug addicts, veterans of foreign or domestic abuse, the deincarcerated, the deinstitutionalised, folks living in Dickensian poverty — but now there’s a new and growing data statistic: the working homeless.

In his new book, Goldstone focuses on five families in the Atlanta area whose plight he sees as a dangerous rift in the social security safety net and a tipping point for the misery to come as class erosion continues to weaken the fabric of society.

“Families are not ‘falling’ into homelessness,” writes Goldstone, “they are being pushed.”