Elle Magazine | 20.12.2025 04:36
“A person making minimum wage would need to work 141 hours a week to afford a standard two-bedroom apartment in Boston. The number is higher in San Francisco. It’s a devastating reality that even full-time workers are vulnerable to losing housing, as Brian Goldstone explores in There Is No Place for Us. Goldstone follows five Atlanta families over years of housing insecurity, telling their stories while examining the larger factors (gentrification that caused rapidly rising rents; property flipping, which created a more limited supply of homes; and predatory real estate practices among them) that have made stable, affordable housing so unattainable. Goldstone’s remarkable reporting is both heartbreaking and illuminating.”—AG
