Fall 2026 Sussman Lecture: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Brian Goldstone on the new American homelessness New
Brian Goldstone, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, will deliver the fall Sussman lecture, presented by The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement in partnership with Anawim Housing on Tuesday, September 8, 2026.
Goldstone’s presentation will highlight how the working poor have been pushed out of affordable housing in Atlanta and what risks the rest of our nation’s capital cities face as well.
Brian Goldstone is a journalist and author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. Told through the lives of five families in Atlanta, the book traces the rise of America’s “working homeless,” exposing the forces—gentrification, racialized displacement, precarious low-wage labor—fueling a growing housing insecurity crisis. The book was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2025 by The New York Times and The Atlantic, and was selected as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year.