Portland Ideation Summit: Housing for All: Difference between revisions

== Ideation Exercise (10-11am) ==

 

Reflecting on what you heard from the speakers, what you’ve seen, your professional experience, personal experience, homelessness, and sharing information with fellow participants at your table, think about the cycle of losing and regaining a place to live (large diagram is on the next page).

 

At the top of the circle, the image represents people in safe housing. Hading counterclockwise, misfortunes could send people on the path to living on the street. Job loss, illness, sudden unaffordable rent, for example.

 

Think of all the resources you know that could intercept the impact of misfortune, and return or keep someone housed. Rent aid, family loans, sharing homes, for example. Using the yellow post-it notes, write as many ideas as you can. Stick them in the upper left of the circle, around the smaller loop, labeled “hope.”

 

Use orange post-its to write and share ideas for barriers that prevent people from getting the help they need, and stick those on the lower left corner, between 9 and 6.

 

These events have the result of the people housed above now living on the street. What can you think of, and know about, that can trap people on the street? Instead of effectively using the resources, they cycle back onto the street.  Write your ideas on the orange post-its and paste them in the lower right corner, on the small loop called “barriers.”

 

If people can avoid those barriers, resources will help, and they will reach a point of safety - indicated by 3 o’clock - and find their way back into a safe housing situation.

 

Discuss with your group what you see. What unmet needs do you see in the cycle? Where is help, communication, resources, missing? What barriers need to be removed? Use your imagination to propose new solutions. Your idea can be: