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March 13, 2010 jihye0227

when I was researching for more information on the homeless and people without any home, I came across some web site which stated some of the statis that were given to people in vancouver.

It dealed with three top concerns that city should  address, and those three came to be,
-Social issues
-Transportation
-Crime

Throughout these concerns, there seemed to have no problems coming up from having a lot of homeless and people without any shelter.

In this statis, 80% resident are satisfied with city service, 19% very satisfided. 52% resident said social issues were their manin concern, 37% homeless/poverty were identified, 18% lack of affordable housing came up. 39% Transportation issues, 17% lack of or poor quality public transit, 12% traffic congestion and 6% poor condition of the city street was brought up. Also 30% were concerned with crime, 8% drug, 7% theft/ break-ins and 6% personal safety.

Throughout this information which was from vancouversuns news story, it said 37% of people were identified as homeless and had problem with poverty. So I looked for the whole population in Vancouver which came up to be approximately about 611, 869 and with that I came up with 37% of that population which came to be 226, 391.53.

That shocked me, when I saw the number 37%  I thought it wasn’t much then when I calculated, the number was way too much for me to take.

Then when I went back and looked at the statis again, I thought people dont know about these problems either.

Once I saw in Visual Culture class that there are people who had houses for their cars and boats. I thought that was ridiculous. If they knew there are people out there without any place to stay, and yet there are people who make houses for their cars, what are they thinking?

So through this facts, I decided to make some kind of ironic sense, so I decided to make a dog with a house and a person standing without any place to stay.

That’s how I came up with the idea to my poster.

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