NLIHC Launches Its Newest Storytelling Podcast, “The Common Ground,” With A Powerful First Episode Featuring Journalist and Author Brian Goldstone
Nov 24, 2025
By May Louis-Juste, NLIHC Project Manager, Strategic Partnerships
Today, NLIHC launched “The Common Ground,” a new storytelling podcast that highlights the powerful intersections of housing, homelessness, and other sectors. Each episode aims to bring together cultural leaders, artists, journalists, advocates, and influencers to explore how their values and work connect to housing justice, emphasizing our collective responsibility for a future where everyone has a place to call home.
In the first episode, titled “How Housing and Homelessness Are Portrayed in the Media and Why That Matters,” host May Louis-Juste speaks with Brian Goldstone, journalist and author of “There Is No Place for Us.” Drawing on years of frontline reporting, Brian examines the lived experiences of families pushed into homelessness despite having full-time jobs and challenges the long-standing narratives about who becomes unhoused and why.
He emphasizes the true impact of this crisis, stating, “The people experiencing homelessness, they are our neighbors. They are the people taking care of our children when we drop them off at daycare. They are the people who are cleaning up our hospital rooms or here in Atlanta who are who are mopping the Atlanta airport, the pride and joy of the city's economy, ... and yet they can’t afford a place to live.”
In this conversation, Brian discusses how media myths about homelessness, such as the notion that unhoused individuals simply haven’t worked hard enough, divert attention from systemic issues like housing unaffordability, eviction, and predatory profit. He reflects on how these narratives have been perpetuated for decades, negatively influencing public perception and policy.
To hear more about this important discussion, you can listen to “The Common Ground” on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and SoundCloud. Subscribe to join us as we explore our shared commitment to finding common ground.