By Through the stories of five Atlanta families, exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America. Shows that skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a growing phenomenon: People with full-time jobs who cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America’s booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. Reveals the human cost of this crisis, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. Argues that these are the nation’s hidden homeless—omitted from official statistics, and holds that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem. Highlights the true magnitude, causes, and consequences of the new American homelessness—and that it won’t be solved until housing is treated as a fundamental human right. Read more.