ABSTRACT

More than 8,100 people in San Diego live unsheltered on the street, with an additional 3,626 in temporary or emergency shelters. Efforts to address this humanitarian crisis have largely involved expanding existing models designed by government and social service providers that ironically exclude the voices of individuals with a lived experience of homelessness. The opportunity to store their belongings at the Transitional Storage Center provides a physical freedom to make choices, while liberating them from “dehumanizing” negative stereotyping. Using a constructivist grounded theory, the descriptive narratives gathered for this study allow for reframing the problems, solutions and perceptions of homelessness.

摘要

圣地亚哥有 8,100 多人在街上无人庇护，另有 3,626 人住在临时或紧急避难所。解决这一人道主义危机的努力主要涉及扩大由政府和社会服务提供者设计的现有模式，具有讽刺意味的是，这些模式排除了有无家可归经历的个人的声音。将他们的物品存放在过渡存储中心的机会提供了做出选择的身体自由，同时将他们从“非人性化”的负面刻板印象中解放出来。使用基于建构主义的理论，为本研究收集的描述性叙述允许重新构建无家可归的问题、解决方案和看法。