Very well-done ethnography following four families in Atlanta who navigate finding, securing, and keeping housing over a period of four years, including the COVID pandemic. Deeply impactful stories about these families, who often face ridiculous barriers to housing even with relatively stable jobs and income. All my homies hate extended stay motel companies (and the fact that people who live at extended stay motels or who move couch to couch are rarely counted as homeless and cannot qualify for what limited supports exist. I did struggle to keep track of the different families, which I partially blame on the audiobook format.
Jump scare warning: Extreme contrast between the author’s voice (who narrates first and last chapter) and the main narrator of the audiobook.
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I don’t think I will read this book because it sounds remarkably stressful, but extremely interesting topic. I remember feeling so much grief during the deepest depths of the pandemic about how ordinary hard things were made so much more excruciatingly difficult (mourning, breakups, unemployment, etc.) This sounds like it would be a really vivid mental timetravel back to that point.