homeless

In the first hour of our two-hour Midday special on homelessness, Matt Bjonerud tells some of the stories at the core of his new e-book memoir, “From Riches to Rags: My Direct Approach to Solving Homelessness and How I Got My Ass Kicked.” He is a member of the advisory board of The Journey Home, Baltimore's 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness.

How did an educated, middle-class girl from Orange County, California go from earning $50,000 a year as an executive assistant to being homeless? At the age of 23, Brianna Karp, found herself on the streets, a casualty of the Great Recession, struggling to survive while coming to terms with the suicide of her father, a man who sexually abused her during her childhood.