Gallery Day Reflection

The biggest takeaway I found was that the demographic of the homeless people we were studying was not as specific or concrete as we initially thought. There were various issues effecting the homeless people using the weather amnesty service and only certain services would be applicable to certain groups. Also, the biggest disconnect that Peter expressed to us was the cultural differences between the homeless at weather amnesty and the services provided .He found that many of the homeless population we were studying were from unique backgrounds of poverty and abuse, and the services that were targeted at them were trying to help assimilate and group them into a more middle class group. We also found that education was hugely important with finding employment.