About the Project
Interview and Observation Research
PhotoVoice Gallery
HMIS Analysis

Sky of Opportunity

Picturing the future:

I look to the sky. I look to God. There are always opportunities. Each cloud is a different door. In the past, I could not reach or even look up. Now I’m in the sky, still bouncing around, door to door. Behind each is an opportunity. Eventually I will open the right door. That plane is my ride out of my past and into my future.

Call to Action

Therapy helps – talking one on one with a therapist “cleans your basement out.” If you hold it in, it’s just going to explode one day. Therapy helps you release the things that you struggle with in life.

EQUITABLE PATHWAYS TO HOUSING

A research project led by Florida International University (FIU) researchers and generously funded by the National Alliance to End Homelessness and facilitated by the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust

The project is led by Principal Investigator (PI) Matthew D. Marr, Ph.D. and Co-PI Qing Lai, Ph.D., FIU Global and Sociocultural Studies.

Research collaborators include Melissa Hurtado Nuez, MA, Rice University Sociology; Sebastian Ballestas Buelvas, MA, FIU Global & Sociocultural Studies; Trey Santorine, MA, University of Miami Sociology; Ana Chamorro, FIU Global & Sociocultural Studies; Kevin Kilcoyne, FIU Global & Sociocultural Studies; Beverly Muzuii, FIU Global & Sociocultural Studies; Melissa Boissiere, MA, FIU Politics and International Relations; Jack Vertovec, Ph.D., Behavioral Science Research Institute; Joshua Evans, Behavioral Science Research Institute; Gary Allen, The HeArt Room; and Natalia da Silva, Ph.D., Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center, Stetson University.