“Reflection”

Working with this project taught me a lot of things I didn’t know, it opened my eyes and made me see the problems in the world. My group and had a wonderful time working on this project, we got the chance to interview various of homeless which was really great. We also interview an employee from a shelter and got to know a lot. I am glad that i was able to about different aspects about this problem, as we finished we started realizing that we can provide a change as a community, and that’s what we learned that if we work together as a community we can do great things and lift each other up.

Reflection Post

Our group went to downtown austin at 7th street, and each one of us interviewed a homeless, there was this particular homeless who really opened my eyes and just made me realize how not every homeless is lazy, addictive to drugs, sex offender, etc. There are a lot of humble homeless who are trying to get out of the hole, but there is many obstacles that hold them to get out. Their life is very difficult to live, the city of Austin doesn’t provide the help that these homeless people need, its more than just providing food, shelter, clothes. The homeless guy we interviewed mention that the system of shelter works by being picky, let me elaborate on that. So there is a large list where homeless people insert there name and that list is to apply for housing but the problem is that the shelter picks only a certain amount of people for example if 1,000 homeless apply about only 80 homeless get housing, so that homeless that we interviewed said he had almost 5 years waiting on that list and since then no one has giving him a call. What I’m trying to say is that the problem is way to big and has gotten out of handle.

Plan B

I conducted a list that contributes to our wicked problem Housing. I believe that all of these play a major role in the problem, having many obstacles can be tough to solve but that’s why it’s important to include everything by that I mean all aspects that relate to the problem. In order to proceed in our wicked problem we need to find all the basic information and statistics for questions such as the ones I wrote. After gathering all the info, we may advance to the next obstacle until we find a solution in our Housing problem.

Connection

The ways that the seminar and my class course will connect is by trying to find ways on having both to relate. We chose Housing but we are also going to include the traffic situation in their too, we feel that both are really important and that both need a solution to it. We are going to try to include both by making them connect in some way. For example getting to school from home, that can be a way  to connect both transportation and housing to each other. As we progress in the wicked problem we should have better ways on trying to make connections.