I’m so glad to see Brian’s incredible work getting the recognition it deserves. He’s written a singular work that has ignited a needed conversation. it’s a bright light in a moment we need bright lights.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I don't quite have words yet. I'm stunned, grateful, disoriented. My deepest, deepest thanks to the five families without whom this book would not exist. It has been the honor of my life to know and learn from you.

A really thoughtful, in-depth piece on my book THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is now up on @cnn.com, by John Blake. It gets at what I've come to think of as the "shadow realm" of America's housing crisis: the vast, largely unseen world of the working homeless.

Inside the ‘shadow realm’ of the affordability crisis | CNN

Author Brian Goldstone says the traditional story about those experiencing homelessness is a myth. Most of the US’ homeless live in an invisible “shadow realm,” he says, because even though they work ...

cnn.com

@chicagohomeless.bsky.social is looking for a justice-oriented person that knows advocacy to help lead our federal policy work. We are adding capacity so we can better take on the challenges of this moment. Please share widely! chicagocoalitiontoendhomelessness.applytojob.com/apply/Rt9vEg...

Federal Advocacy Manager - Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness - Career Page

Apply to Federal Advocacy Manager at Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness in Chicago, IL.

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Thanks to @wbez.org & @chicago.suntimes.com for covering @chicagohomeless.bsky.social‘s updated homelessness estimate. Hear a discussion on it today at 4:00 CST with @brian-goldstone.bsky.social! Registe here - act.chicagohomeless.org/a/estimate

Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness

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WBEZ@wbez.org · 8mo ago

More than 58,000 Chicagoans experienced homelessness in 2024, according to a new report from the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness. The new data reveals homelessness in the city is more widespread than official counts show.

Thanks to @chicagomag.com for talking to me about encampments for @chicagohomeless.bsky.social.

Chicago magazine@chicagomagazine.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Housing advocate Doug Schenkelberg, executive director of @ChiHomeless, weighs in on the sticky issue of encampments. www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

So well deserved. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Absolutely stunned and honored to see THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on this list. I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.

I’ll keep it simple. Callahan is holding these clogs until I raise $5,000 for @chicagohomeless.bsky.social for #GivingTuesday. It’s unconventional, but these are crazy times. Thank you for supporting CCH & saving the clogs. Donate here - donate.chicagohomeless.org/page/GivingT...

Homelessness in the U.S. is far more pervasive than the official figures suggest: roughly four million people are without housing right now. Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them. I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):

HUD is going make thousands of formerly homeless people homeless again through their funding and policy changes. We will see it in our shelters, in encampments, and in doubled-up households.

@skpineda.bsky.social · 10mo ago

On Thursday, HUD announced it would overhaul its rules for funding homelessness programming. As a result, more than 8000 Illinoisans could be pushed out of their housing. My latest for @illinoisanswers.bsky.social illinoisanswers.org/2025/11/18/n...

Combine this horrible policy change with SNAP and Medicaid work requirements. With the coming loss of ACÁ insurance subsidie. With decimating funding for homeless youth in school. It adds up intentional cruelty and pain for people at the margins.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

the @chicagoreader.com also put together know your rights resources for unhoused folks interacting with federal agents in chicago, based on the excellent information compiled by @chicagohomeless.bsky.social. they're available in spanish: chicagoreader.com/news/conozca... and english:

What to know if you’re unhoused and stopped by federal agents

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have targeted unhoused Chicagoans in recent months. Here's what to know about your rights.

chicagoreader.com

I appreciate both @katieprout.bsky.social’s write-up and @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’sshout out to @chicagohomeless.bsky.social‘s workin his recent visit to Chicago to discuss his excellent book “There is No Place for Us.” We can’t solve homelessness without first understanding its true scope.

Profiting off precarity - Chicago Reader

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone, is an account of five Black families forced into homelessness.

chicagoreader.com

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

“Cruz’s friend, who is homeless, did not have legal status and was taken away by the feds.” It’s almost an afterthought in this article. We have no idea how many unhoused folks have been taken.

Gregory Pratt@royalpratt.bsky.social · 12mo ago

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE has hit three homeless shelters in the last week. All shelters that were set up to serve migrants. So they forced people to move to Chicago, Chicago stood up shelters to support migrants, and the feds use those shelters as targets for their kidnapping. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/01/b...

Bronzeville Homeless Shelter Residents 'Traumatized' After Feds Chase, Arrest 4 People

The federal agents arrived in unmarked minivans and detained four people outside a shelter run by a local church's charity Wednesday.

blockclubchicago.org

Downtown Chicago, today. The little girl …

According to reporters on the ground, ICE is now **deliberately firing** what appears to be "non-lethals" at press at this morning's protest in Broadview, IL. One @unraveledpress.com reporter got hit. Unraveled has been putting in serious work during this crisis--throw them some cash if you can.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · last yr.

ICE advanced again, started firing at photographers/press intentionally. Took a nasty lick to the face, unsure if pepper ball or rubber bullet.

NWSRR is now reporting ICE agents snatched two people at the migrant shelter near River Park this morning:

As I've said before, for a chronic, loggorrheic liar, Donald Trump can be shockingly honest, such as when he said at Charlie Kirk's funeral: "I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them.” That's why he wants to send the military into Chicago. Not to reduce crime, but to hurt the city.

Thanks to @chicagotribune.com for sharing @chicagohomeless.bsky.social & CFTEH‘s letter. No one wants people to have to sleep in parks or under viaducts or anywhere else unsheltered. Let’s come together around the solution - new revenue for permanent housing & service.

Letters: Sweeps of tent encampments will do nothing to alleviate homelessness in Chicago

A call for sweeps with a tone-deafness for service inadequacy will do nothing to decrease homelessness in Chicagoland.

chicagotribune.com

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.

Share with your networks. Direct, low barrier cash assistance works.

Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness@chicagohomeless.bsky.social · last yr.

The Edrika Fulford Mutual Aid Fund reopens Oct 16 at 10 am! 400 applications will be accepted online or by phone, entered into a lottery & undergo review. Applying does not guarantee funding. 💻 chicagohomeless.org/MAF 📞📞 (312) 641-4148 (Mon-Fri, 10am - 2pm)

Believing that homelessness is the result of ”individual choices” allows you to avoid discomfort and abdicate yourself of responsibility for contributing to systemic solutions.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · last yr.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

I found this post really helpful in wrapping my brain around the different agencies that might do Chicago raids. The biggest takeaway: A lot of attention is on the the National Guard. But federal LEO's (ICE, FBI, etc.) can exert just as much (if not more) muscle & there's less to stop them.

Capitol Fax@capitolfax.bsky.social · last yr.

My column on the front page of the Sun-Times today: My original headline was "Flash! Crime terror (doesn't) grip Kill City!" But my editor thought that might confuse people. I liked "Kill City" myself. www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/09/flas...

Flash! Crime terror doesn't grip Chicago

The blog of Neil Steinberg

everygoddamnday.com

We prepared this Know Your Rights card in partnership with All Chicago to support the unsheltered on the coming weeks. We also created a phone line to answer question and help direct people to resources. We are going to do all we can to protect people in this moment of threat.

Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness@chicagohomeless.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Information Card: Know Your Rights as an Unsheltered Person - Federal Enforcement in Chicago // Conozca sus derechos como persona experimentando falta de vivienda: Aplicación de la ley federal en Chicago chicagohomeless.org/outreach/

@chicagohomeless.bsky.social and our partners are doing everything we can to ensure the safety of those experiencing homelessness

Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · last yr.

City officials are working with the anti-homelessness nonprofit organization All Chicago to help prepare encampment communities located in places like parks and underpasses, for the possible deployment of the National Guard and other federal agents.

We are aware of reports that the Trump Administration may deploy federal troops to Chicago soon. We know that this may directly impact Chicagoans experiencing homelessness and many people—including us—are concerned and afraid of what might happen.

Pentagon planning military deployment to Chicago in coming weeks, report says

The Washington Post reported Saturday that Defense Department officials have been planning for weeks to deploy federal troops to Chicago.

chicago.suntimes.com

The fastest-growing homeless population in America? School-age children. Last year, student homelessness in California—where rents continue to soar past wages—rose by 20,000, reaching its highest level in a decade. But sure, keep insisting homelessness is all about mental illness and addiction.

California’s hidden homeless children: living in garages, doubled-up and unseen

Student homelessness in Monterey county soars as families struggle with high rent and scarce housing amid funding cuts

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