Have you ever been homeless? If so, how did you lose your home?
How did you find secure housing?
If you're still homeless, what is keeping you from finding secure housing?
When you see homeless people on the street, what is your thought about how they have become unhoused?
Do you make eye contact with homeless people you encounter? Do you engage them in
conversation, and if so, what are those conversations like?
Have you ever visited a homeless shelter? If so, what were your impressions of it?
What resources do you know are available to the homeless?
Have you ever offered a homeless person a place to live? Would you consider doing so? If not, what are
your fears about doing so?
Do you know what the racial, age and gender breakdown among the homeless is? If not, would you care to speculate about this and the reasons for it?
Do you think being adequately housed is a right or privilege?
What are your ideas about the causes of homelessness?
Do you think it is an individual problem or something systemic?
On a fundamental level, do you think homelessness is something the government should address or
should it be handled privately?
Do you think the homelessness problem could be solved by having full employment? If so, what steps do
you think as a society we could take to achieving that?
Do you think the homelessness problem could be solved by having more affordable housing? If so, what steps do you think as a society we could take towards providing that?
Would you be willing to have low income housing in your neighborhood? On your block or your street?