Christopher Gardner Talks About ‘White-Collar Homelessness’ at Leadership Summit
By Erica Christoffer, Contributing Editor, REALTOR® Magazine
A new face of homelessness is emerging in the U.S., downtrodden from today’s economic climate.
Christopher Gardner knows all too well how the events in one’s life can topple down in a domino-effect. Gardner, CEO and founder of the Chicago-based brokerage firm Gardner Rich LLC, was homeless just 25 years ago. His autobiography was portrayed in the 2006 movie The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith.
The keynote speaker for the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® 2009 Leadership Summit on Tuesday, Aug. 25, Gardner shed light on the group of people he referred to as “white-collar homeless,” and shared his own remarkable story.
