Sisters’ database of over 515 interviews with people who have experienced homelessness is an incredible community resource.  There is no project like it that we know of in which interviews have cast so widely, and also gone so deeply: each interview was an average of two hours and delved into very personal terrain.

Data Used in the Community

Many have taken advantage of this rich, meaningful and relevant data source and used it to help produce documents.  Sisters asks them, in the agreement they sign before receiving data, to share their products with us; they can also chose to have them made public.  Below are links to some of them; they are copyright of the author unless otherwise noted.

• Daycenters Analysis
• PHLUSH (Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human) Public Bathroom Report, February 2006
• Homeless Does Not Mean Dogless
• The Spiritual Lessons of Homelessness New Connexion article May 2007
• Solutions from the Research
• Sean Carter-What Causes Homelessness, Term Paper 2007
• ‘Dignity and Indignation’ - by University of Washington professors Lisa Hoffman and Brian Coffey! Click here to download a 16-page PDF.