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After gunfire erupted outside a humanitarian aid event for Gaza at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington late Wednesday, Yoni Kalin and his wife, JoJo, watched as museum security rushed attendees away from the doors and others who had just left came tumbling back in.

Another witness, Yoni Kalin, said "people were calming him down, bringing him water, taking care of him".

To better understand the connections between the idea of home, the American Dream, social mobility, and America’s increasingly fractured politics and larger society, I recently spoke with Yoni Appelbaum, deputy executive editor at The Atlantic and the author of the new book “Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity.”

By Yoni Appelbaum Random House: 320 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.

Yoni Appelbaum kicks off “Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity,” his insightful book about our national housing crisis, with a personal story that will be all too familiar to any Angeleno trying to get ahead.