The Welcome Home Housing Simulation is an educational resource in which participants role-play a homeless individual searching for housing. Each participant is assigned a character with a distinct economic profile, family history and biography and seeks housing from representatives including apartment complexes, public housing, rescue missions and private homebuilders. Participants learn about the housing market and experience some of the frustrations low-income individuals experience when looking for housing. The Welcome Home Housing Simulation can be downloaded for free. The download includes all the necessary elements of the simulation including instructions, participant character handouts, leader handouts, application worksheets and discussion questions. The simulation is appropriate for groups of 20 to 50 people.
• Ask teachers in your school or college to use the simulation as part of their lesson plan during Act! Speak! Build! Week.
• Host the simulation on your school campus or in your community.
• Advertise the event through fliers and invitations.
• Host the simulation before or during a “sleep out.”
• Host the simulation during a Sunday school class at your church.
• College and high school groups can visit elementary and middle schools to host the simulation for younger students.
• The simulation can be paired with other resources such as the “Paper House Campaign” or “Advocacy is Elementary.”
• Host the simulation in coordination with a hunger simulation.
For more information on how to host an Oxfam Hunger Banquet visit www.oxfamamerica.org.
Download the Welcome Home Housing Simulation for free.
