MM Suarez’s Reviews > There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America > Status Update

“She hated it, she absolutely despised it, when people looked at her like she was unhinged and told her she “needed help.” Such statements, as she heard them, seemed to discount her genuine needs: her need for a functioning water heater; her need not to be scammed and exploited; her need to keep her lights on, to keep her food from spoiling.”

“He said there were always going to be people who had to stay poor in order to make others rich.”

“Michelle desired nothing more than to be working—both for financial stability and for her sanity. But a lack of childcare remained an insurmountable barrier.”

“Georgia, among the most landlord-friendly states in the country, was one of only three that did not require property owners to guarantee the habitability of apartments they rented out.”