Episode Details

Official measures of homeless Americans omit the millions of individuals and families that make up the “working homeless”—a segment of the population that, despite working full time, cannot secure stable housing. In this episode: Journalist Brian Goldstone pulls back the curtain on America’s worsening homelessness crisis and interrogates the fractured relationship between employment and financial stability.

Brian Goldstone, PhD, is a journalist and the author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The New Republic, Guernica, and Jacobin.

Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

• There Is No Place for Us—Penguin Random House

• The invisible homeless crisis that official statistics miss—Vox

• The New American Homeless—The New Republic

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