Start with high-confidence poverty & homelessness books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
Invisible Child
Andrea Elliott
Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich, Sara Bershtel
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
The American Way of Eating
Tracie McMillan
Poor Economics
Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
