The Climb: From a junkie by railroad tracks to selling beachfront million-dollar views

Hitting rock bottom comes with a trap door, dropping you lower still.

Like addiction, homelessness has a lot of bottoms on the way to rock bottom. And even then, you’re most likely to learn that rock bottom comes with a trap door to even lower levels of existing—leaving one to question their own humanity.

This is the story of that basement. And the long climb out.