Refined Questions
Hey guys, this discussion has been fantastic I thought we should start a new thread however to list our questions and begin to narrow them down to 5 (plus the previous one was getting LONG) After reading through the comments I found 6 questions (or categories) that people have agreed upon (sorry if I missed any questions that were voiced, just add them in below)
1) What cause(s) do you attribute the most to homelessness in Vancouver? 2) Do you believe that there are enough effective assistance programs for those experiencing extreme poverty? 3) To what degree do you see homelessness/poverty in Vancouver as a social problem? 4) To what degree is the government responsible for aiding the homeless in getting off the streets? 5) What level of government do you feel should be responsible, more so, for addressing homelessness in Vancouver? 6) Do you support the opening of additional safe injection sites in Vancouver?
So if people want to reply as to what question(s) they want to include, we can go from there into editing the question to encompass/exclude what we want, and also phrasing it as to what are answer are.
Hey guys, I agree with Grace's idea to properly define poverty, however wouldn't excluding those that live in government subsidized housing make the our measurement less valid? Also a few of the questions pertain to assistance programs and to the degree that government should be involved so if we were to exclude those that live in government subsidized housing I think we would have to consider altering some of the questions. Thanks Cam for gathering the questions, with regards to the potential answers, perhaps the first question can be answered as Grace suggested with a few options (drugs, mental illness etc). The second question could be a yes or no question and questions three, four and six could be answered numerically (although there would be a scale issue, would 1 to 4 scale as Jason suggested earlier be good?) Also do you guys think that we could somehow combine questions four and 5? Then we would have 5 questions that we can further refine. What do you guys think?
II think we are definitely on the right track but I have concerns about question 6. I realize that substance abuse plays a role in poverty and homelessness but are we assuming that it plays a role in all cases by including this question? I definitely think the questions has merits but with only 5 questions i'm not sure it tells us enough about homelessness and poverty.
I think that question 4 and 5 can definitely be combined somehow. Or, we could just remove question 4 altogether, since question 5 does give us an indication of how much the government should be responsible in addressing homelessness in Vancouver. Any ideas on how we could combine these two questions? If we can combine the two questions then we can include question 6, since drug addiction seems to be playing a prominent role in homelessness.
I'll vouch for your idea that we could scrap question 4. I think question 5 is a better question as it will provide more answers, and it's probably not necessary to include both 4 and 5.