Cecilia McBride, Ines De la Morena,

Sydney Porter, Reid Berg, Lucy Moeller

The Birth of an Idea
Social Perspective

● 1.1 million Costa Ricans live in poverty (Poverty

and Equity).
● 1,000 homeless roam San Jose’s streets
(Gutierrez)
Global Scale
● 80% lives on less than $10 / day
● 100 million homeless worldwide
● 1.6 billion lack adequate housing
● 3 million in EU
● Housing is a commodity, not a
human right
Local Scale
● Austin’s homeless population rose 20% between 2015 and 2016 (KVUE)

● There are over two thousand homeless people in Austin (KVUE)

● 20% of the homeless population in the U.S. are children (Goodwill)

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 Special Thanks to:
Many people collaborated their time and effort to this project and deserve to be recognized:

Nubian Queen Lola

Danny Henderson

Carmine Salvucci

The Mobile Loaves and Fishes Family

Kate Donaho

Our awesome and helpful project adviser, Ms. Jackson!

The entire AGS Sophomore team-

Ms. Webster,
Mr. Tierney,
Mr. Trenfield,
Dr.Gregory

The Berg Family

WORKS CITED

“Poverty & Equity .” The World Bank, The World Bank Group, 2010, povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/CRI. Accessed 25 Apr. 2017.

Gutierrez, Gustavo. “Homeless Costa Rica.” Costa Rica Star News, News Co, 21 Dec. 2012,
news.co.cr/thousands-of-homeless-people-in-san-jose-costa-rica-addicted-to-crack/21523/. Accessed 25 Apr. 2017.

“What Is Homelessness? - Why Are People Homeless?” Goodwill, http://www.goodwillnmi.org/homeless-housing/homelessness/

“Austin Sees 20 Percent Increases in Homeless Population” KVUE ABC, 3 Mar. 2016,
www.kvue.com/news/local/austin-sees-20-percent-increase-in-homeless-population/65879102