A New Book Details How Scarily Easy It Is To Be 'Pushed' Into Homelessness in America

A New Book Details How Scarily Easy It Is To Be 'Pushed' Into Homelessness in America

In Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, we meet Celeste, who is dealing with a cancer diagnosis and moves into an extended-stay hotel after a fire burns down her rental. But Celeste didn’t score high enough on a “vulnerability index (a “mechanism for determining who would—and would not—be eligible for support” developed by a consulting firm) to get housing aid. She and her children didn’t meet the federal …