The famous Reno drunk and the housing-market hangover
In 2006, Malcolm Gladwell published a story in The New Yorker called ” Million Dollar Murray. ” It profiled Murray Barr, an affable, mostly-toothless homeless man who had cost the city of Reno hundreds of thousands of dollars over the ten years he'd lived on the streets, in hospital bills, substance-abuse treatment costs, ambulance transportation, […]