Poverty & Homelessness
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Nickel and Dimed (20th Anniversary Edition): On (Not) Getting by in America
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted
Millions of Americans work full- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250808316
- Language: English
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
$20.00 Add to cartONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR – ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR – Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of fi… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593237161
- Language: English
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Clayton
$22.99 Add to cartCLAYTON is a riveting novel that brings to life the failed hopes and dreams of one man…..a heartbreaking story of homelessness and how one gets there. The book brings out the stark realities of addi
- Author: Stahr, Missy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318820632
- Language: English
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Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America’s Forgotten People and Pets
$17.95 Add to cartNOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE PALISADES FIRE ON ANIMAL RESCUES IN LOS ANGELES
Rethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time–poverty and homelessness-- Author: Mithers, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1640097279
- Language: English
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Alabama Village: Faith, Hope, and Survival in a Southern Town
$22.95 Add to cartFrom the celebrated writer J. Malcolm Garcia, a narrative nonfiction account of a forgotten Alabama neighborhood through intimate, tender, and gritty profiles of its people as they navigate immense lo… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, J. Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214970
- Language: English
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Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age
$31.99 Read moreIn the tradition of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, a longtime housing activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness endures in contemporary America…
Millions of people are affe- Author: Markee, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1685891675
- Language: English
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A Place Called Home: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartThis memoir that “will take your breath away” chronicles a harrowing journey through homelessness and poverty in New York City, followed by a turbulent experience in foster care (Jeanette Walls, New Y… [more below]
- Author: Ambroz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0306923033
- Language: English
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Bittersweet Lane: Creating Home(s) in the American Affordable Housing Crisis
$27.99 Add to cartThe Bitter Reality. The Sweet Solutions. The Lane Forward.
Housing dominates headlines, yet few truly understand how affordable housing works–or why it’s failing. Bittersweet Lane is the first book t- Author: Madden, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991642897
- Language: English
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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths about Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
$18.99 Add to cartOne of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americ
- Author: Barber, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096756
- Language: English
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London Labour and the London Poor
$19.00 Read moreUnflinching reports of London’s poor from a prolific and influential English writer
London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles, later published in four volumes, written for th
- Author: Mayhew, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0140432418
- Language: English
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Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding
$29.99 Read moreAs seen through the eyes of photographer Kim Watson, who has spent three years on the streets of Los Angeles documenting his intimate and deeply felt relationships with the unhoused, Trespass offers a
- Author: Watson, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1506491138
- Language: English
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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths about Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
$22.99 Add to cartOne of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americ
- Author: Barber, William J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094877
- Language: English
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And Housing for All: The Fight to End Homelessness in America
$29.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking legal advocate argues that only by recognizing housing as a fundamental human right can we hope to solve America’s homelessness crisis.
In And Housing for All, founder of the Nationa- Author: Foscarinis, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1633889769
- Language: English
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Way Home: Journeys Through Homelessness
$29.95 Add to cartCan one city’s solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?
The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and po
- Author: Ensign, Josephine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1421450232
- Language: English
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Pretreatment Across Multiple Fields of Practice: Trauma Informed Approach to Homelessness and Beyond
$25.95 Add to cartPretreatment Across Multiple Fields of Practice: Trauma Informed Approach to Homelessness and Beyond
Jay and Louise Levy and their co-authors have distilled years of diverse experience serving people w
- Author: Levy, Jay S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998578
- Language: English
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Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, a powerful portrayal of American homelessness that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to ke… [more below]
- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668034824
- Language: English
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They Just Need to Get a Job: 15 Myths on Homelessness
$18.95 Add to cartFor readers of Andrea Elliott and Matthew Desmond, the former CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless breaks through the highly destructive misinformation surrounding our homeless neighbors
Conservative- Series: Myths Made in America
- Author: Brosnahan, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0807006971
- Language: English
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Humble Pie
$20.00 Add to cart- Author: LaMarche, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988181620
- Language: English
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The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
$28.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.
Kevin Fagan’s The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco–one of- Author: Fagan, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668017113
- Language: English
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The Power Elite
$23.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States,… [more below]
- Author: Mills, C. Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0195133544
- Language: English
