Deconstructing Homelessness: Feedback & Development

Feedback is integral to this course's development. It is why the course has been run openly and at no cost during its development — to obtain as much feedback as possible from a wide selection of demographics, professions, and circumstances.

This page demonstrates how the feedback that has been received has directly changed the teaching and delivery of the course over time.

Deconstructing Homelessness: First Iteration

Dates: 17 January – 19 February 2026 · Location: Ballajura Library

Access & Accessibility

Terminology

Problem: Feedback during the first 3 weeks of the course showed there was an issue with the amount of terminology within the course, and that the level of assumed knowledge was too high.

Solution: Incorporate more definitions within the session, and supply an easy-to-understand glossary for every session.

Text-Heavy Slides

Problem: Feedback at the end of the course showed that many of the slides were text heavy, with potential impacts on participants with dyslexia.

Solution: Move non-essential text to the notes section rather than displaying it on the slide.

Course Structure

Session Length

Problem: Some sessions struggled within 90 minutes — especially Week 2, which covered housing policies from 1901 to the present. Some weeks also lacked time for discussion.

Solution: Extend sessions from 90 minutes to two hours.

Dense Topics

Problem: Some topics were identified as too dense. Week 1 needed more focus on empathy, and Week 2 needed to be split to allow for discussion and better learning outcomes.

Solution: Week 1 is split — empathy is given its own session. Week 2 becomes the Adversarial Perspective. The previous Week 2 content is split across what become Week 3 and Week 4.