Homeless Experience Analysis

This week at city experience has been packed full with lots of amazing visits to places all around Melbourne. The work load has also been very full on, but it has come together and now looks much better than I expected it to. I don’t think that I really have a favourite place as I enjoyed most of the outings we went on. I also liked the interview as I found out things that I didn't know before. I think that the main message from the interview that I got was that to help people without a home, the best thing to do would be to support them and give them guidance.

At the start of this week, I didn't know much about our topic. With the places we have visited I have now learnt new things about what it means to not have a home. It isn't just about living on the streets and closing out the world, it's about helping those who need it. The interview and visits to Urban Seed and The Big Issue were very helpful as they gave us an insight as to what homelessness was and ways to help them. …show more content…
At The Big Issue we were educated on lots of things about homelessness in Melbourne. We also got to hear from a man who is homeless and had big things happen during his life. He told us that when he was young his family didn’t support him which cause him to be addicted to alcohol. Then later he started his own company up and made heaps of money and was buying more of what he wanted than he needed. After, he had trouble with his workers and clients so he left and became homeless. The Big Issue has helped him find himself again and get back on track. At the Magistrates’ court we experienced a few different court cases. Some were boring and very hard to understand whilst others were interesting. I enjoyed going to the courts as I had never been before and it was a next experience for