It's bleak out there. But we're gonna do some good this week. How I'd Fix Atlanta has partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help a bunch of ATLiens this week, and we need your help. Give what you can. Tell everyone you know. unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...

How can the housing struggles of the 1970s guide the tenant movement in the present? @city.bsky.social breaks it down in this electrifying review of BORN IN FLAMES for @newrepublic.com If you want to better understand why cities chose police funding over habitability, read this.

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Cornelius Taylor, a homeless man in Atlanta, was killed when the city tried to clear his encampment. His death epitomizes the country's approach to homelessness: criminalize it and push it out of sight. Here's who he was and what he meant to those who loved him: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Excited to share a new slate of events for There Is No Place for Us. I'll be in 12 states this fall, including the Texas Book Festival and the Morristown Festival of Books. Hope to see some of you there! Full schedule and details: www.briangoldstone.net/there-is-no-...

Combine this dismantling of fair housing enforcement with the evisceration of the CFPB and the efforts to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and you have a perfect recipe for racialized hyper-predation in housing markets. Lots of money to be made at the expense of low-wealth folks of color.

Currently reading - right after @brian-goldstone.bsky.social popped up on my feed, I noticed this on the new books shelf in my library. app.thestorygraph.com/books/ccb15c...

An HIV outbreak in Maine points to a series of poor policy decisions, including ending needle-exchange programs and clearing a homeless encampment. As those policies go national, there is a risk the disease will spread, too: kffhealthnews.org/news/article... @brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Just ordered my signed copy of @brian-goldstone.bsky.social's There Is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless In America. Loved how it highlighted how AI is being used to benefit landlords and harm tenants - definitely recommend it!

we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you:

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024) By @stephannnnie.bsky.social

You see, if you cancel the hunger survey, people will never know how much you drove up food insecurity by slashing SNAP.

Truly outrageous. Erasing the evidence of mounting suffering won't make it go away. It's just a matter of time before he cancels the annual homeless count.

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

On Sept. 15, Israeli forces fired on a clearly marked MSF water truck delivering 10,000 litres in #Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan. Destroying infrastructure while making humanitarian aid nearly impossible is not just cruel, it’s illegal.

State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.

Grateful to join Kerri Miller on Minnesota Public Radio (@mprnews.org) for this in-depth conversation about There Is No Place for Us:

“PEN America… calls for the widespread cultural destruction in Gaza to be investigated as war crimes, crimes against humanity, and evidence of genocidal intent.” Better late than never to see this report. pen.org/report/all-t...

Listen to our episode with @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on working and homelessness in today’s America:

I became unhoused after my dad died. It didn't happen at first, but slowly. I spent 3yrs unhoused or precariously housed. The worst part was not being able to pay the storage and then losing all of my belongings from childhood. It still affects everything I do today.

I’m in SF, the struggle for housing defines life for a generation or more of current or would-be residents. From insufficient and hateful homelessness policies, to unaffordability forcing many to leave and fewer to stay, to my own reality of the unknown: I’m disabled, if my wife dies or gets sick…

I've learned that you don't need a magic cloak or potion to become invisible. Just be homeless or disabled and no one will ever see you again. 😰

I continue to hear myths in Seattle about people moving here to be homeless, despite studies to the contrary, the obvious link to rising housing costs, and many heartbreaking stories like those Brian shares. Most homeless people in Seattle were housed in Seattle and we should not accept it.

The struggle for housing never seems to end. When I started my job at the IRS last summer, I was still living in a tent. And oh my God, it was hot last year. People have no idea how impossibly hard it is to get back into housing. Nonrefundable application fees, finding someone who will work with you

"Irish author Sally Rooney could not travel to collect a literary prize this week over concerns that she may be arrested if she enters the UK, given her support of Palestine Action."

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.

"Of course, I am not K, but I find myself uncannily identified with his predicament." Judith Butler's open letter to UC Berkeley.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Today is my book's birthday! 🎂 It happens to be around $12 on Amazon right now, which is a steal (if you can handle Amazon). www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263...

I'm 62 & disabled. I lived in a broken down shed (paid rent) for 4 yrs waiting for housing after fleeing DV I could no longer take. Now, I not only wait every day to be told that I'm going to lose it but am forced to live in unsafe conditions & stay quiet about it for fear of losing it.

In the richest country in the history of the world, homelessness should be history. It is not. I will read this book.

This is a really excellent book.

I'll be at Worthington United Methodist Church tomorrow night to talk about There Is No Place for Us. Prologue Bookshop will be there with books on hand, and I'll be signing after the event. If you're in the Columbus area, hope you'll come by! Thursday, Sept 18 6:30–8:00 PM Free and open to all

bsky.app/profile/bria... This is a fantastic book that explains the systemic features of the home-buying and rental markets that drive homelessness - nothing to do with mental illness (diagnosed or not) or people "choosing" to live without shelter. I read it in a weekend - couldn't put it down.

In a time where homeless people are being targeted, I think this book is important to help people understand that it is not some moral failure on the part of the unhoused. Can't wait to read it.

🔁 not for me but for my friend @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social who lives the reality of homelessness, extended stays & multiple ♿️ They want to read this 📕 for the relief that comes w feeling validated, but wouldn’t be able to buy it & I doubt they have the 🥄 to get a library card rn 💸 for 🥪🏠 here:

I think people would be surprised how many people they know at some time had to couch surf, sleep in a car, have someone pay bills for them... It's so easy to become homeless. It isn't only living on the street, that's just what we see when the last option is gone. Ask around, and be surprised.

A woman spoke at a community rally near me who looked like any other person in my office, who described being unable, on her one income, to pay rent and eat AND take care of her health. She had an office job, but her best housing option was to rent a vermin infested basement studio of a house.

You should do this - it's a great book:

I’ve recommended it before and I’ll recommend it again - this is a difficult, great book. It brings the struggle for housing down to the human level with a focus on how the systems we’ve built destroy lives. You will learn and you will be angry and maybe you’ll be inspired to push for change.

This is a very good book. Great reporting and writing. I cannot recommend it enough.

I need to check this out. So many of my clients are homeless or right on the edge of homelessness. It’s a constant barrier to them being able to fight or recover from charges.

I'm currently reading this incredible book and would absolutely love to acquire another copy to share with a friend. (If I don't win, I shall still share it with a friend when I'm finished. 😀)

Would loooove to win. Fingers crossed!

Adding to the chorus who’ve said this is a great book. You may think you understand homelessness and the housing shortage, but I can almost guarantee you don’t understand the *working* homeless and housing precarity like you will after you’ve read it

I can't wait to read this. Absolutely critical work. I think SLO just started a formal program for people living out of their cars to have safe places to sleep, shower, etc. I would guess (and hope to find out if) a lot of those folks are the working poor".

I've got some extra copies of There Is No Place for Us, and I'd love to give away 5 signed books. Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday. Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.

A big thanks to @wbur.org for chatting with me about @propublica.org's investigative series into harms happening within America's H-2A program. You can listen here: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

@loyaltybooks.bsky.social is a gem. And they have a fantastic site you can shop if you're able: loyaltybookstores.com