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“In Atlanta, the average rent for a basic one-bedroom unit was now equivalent to 174 percent of the maximum SSI payment of $943. Nationally, the situation was just as bad: there was not a single city or county in America where someone with a disability who received SSI could afford an apartment without other forms of assistance.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“Extended Stay America would record $96 million in profits on revenues of $1 billion in 2020. Observing the phenomenal success of the extended-stay model, institutional investors had started flocking to this asset class.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“An algorithm could determine the course of action: if the rent was three days late, an eviction notice automatically went out, a late fee was tacked on, and the tenant was saddled with any court costs incurred by a filing.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

“But I believe the greatest weapon we have at our disposal is our voices. And I am going to use my voice for you, and for me. Hate is loud. We are louder.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea