What's the best way to tackle the problem of homelessness? Is "tackling" even the right word? What are we missing?

What happens to our human brain that might challenge our ability to solve the problem of homelessness? What can we do about it?

Are you a policy maker? What is a MicroSolution, and how does this relate to homelessness?

What will you learn?

How to use Applied Curiosity methodologies to solve problems in new ways.

How to assess what we want to know versus what we need to know.

How to ask key Curious Questions.

How to create a MicroSolution.

Key reasons why the issue of homelessness is uniquely difficult to address.

The role of disgust in decision making.

The role of moral judgement in decision making.

Neuroscience and the policy of homelessness.

Why human garbage is a unique problem for humans to deal with.

Curious questions.

For whom is homelessness not a problem? For whom is homelessness a problem?

What kind of problems does homelessness reflect? What problems does homelessness reflect? What kind of problems does homelessness present? What problems does homelessness present? How are these questions different?

How is similar vastly different from same?

How many problems does a viable solution need to solve?

How do we assess what problems we can (need to?) ignore in order to tackle a more important problem?

How do we prevent the magnitude of the problem from stifling our ability to tackle smaller problems?

How do we break down problems into smaller and smaller chunks?

Which is the most important smallest problem to begin to tackle?

What do I not know? What assumptions should I bust?

Links and resources:

Applied Curiosity Training

Is Utah's Housing First all that it's cracked up to be?

Portland Homeless Family Solutions

What's being done in Portland

Homes, Not Jails

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