Matt Mitchell is the founder of the Ames Romero House, a Catholic Worker in central Iowa focused on building relationships and bridges across social class boundaries, where he strives to continue Dorothy Day's effort of "radicalizing the complacent" and live out a faith rooted in intimacy with Jesus.
In their book Beyond Homelessness, authors Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian J. Walsh claim that homelessness "is a matter of 'placelessness' " where one lacks a sense of connection, identity and love.
