For over a decade, Greg Dunston and his partner, Marie Mckinzie, were among the thousands facing homelessness in Oakland. Their situation seemed unchanging—until 2019, when millionaire real estate developer Terry McGrath made a life-changing offer: he invited the couple to live in his nearly $4 million home in Piedmont, one of the Bay Area’s most exclusive neighborhoods.
McGrath first learned about the couple from the San Francisco Chronicle. When journalist Otis R. Taylor Jr. asked him why he would open his home to people experiencing homelessness, McGrath offered a deeply personal response. “It’s helped bring me back to my roots as a young kid,” he explained to the San Francisco Chronicle. “I cannot avoid the responsibility I have to live around me. I have a personal obligation to take responsibility when I see injustices. And to me, this is a clear injustice.”
McGrath’s generosity is a powerful reminder of how acts of compassion can challenge systemic inequality, offering real solutions to real people in need…