Stolen
Belongings
Hack Homelessness 2020
The Belonging Team
ARCHITECTURE
LEGAL
WEB/UI DESIGN
USER EXPERIENCE
FINANCE
Connor Bowes
Kyle Lazer
Iveta Posledni
Anahi Servin
Steven Balogh
Ram Bhadra
Zehra Jafri
Bailey Maher
Jagdeep Sekhon
Kameelah Sims-Traylor
Zehra Jafri
Kameelah Sims-Traylor
Ram Bhadra
Bailey Maher
Kameelah Sims-Traylor
Anjali Vadhri
Steven Balogh
Jagdeep Sekhon
Stolen Belongings
A Day in John’s Life
11am: John is about to eat his first meal of the day on the corner of Turk and Franklin when he notices a DPW truck proceed his way.
11:30am: Despite his best attempts to get away, the DPW agents catch up to John and confiscate all his belongings, without properly tagging any of it.
3pm: After searching and walking around the city for three hours, John finally finds his way to the DPW office in the Mission, but upon getting there he realizes most of his things are not there and DPW refuses to give him access to his belongings due to lack of identification.
Legal Backdrop
Constitutional Protections
Current City Policy
The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution protects “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
Paper ‘Bag and Tag’ Example
Challenges and the Belonging Solution
How might we...
Create a system for homeless individuals to quickly mobilize themselves and their essential belongings to avoid being targeted by a sweep?
Ensure the safe return of belongings seized in sweeps in order to stop unhoused individuals from permanently losing their belongings without requiring access to mobile technology?
Belonging App and Belonging Scanning Kiosk
Belonging Box
The Hack
Our goal through the ‘Belonging’ project is to create a secure, portable, durable and multipurpose storage unit, along with an app that facilitates item inventory and tagging, as a means to protect unhoused individuals’ belongings from being taken or lost in a sweep.
The Belonging Box
The Belonging Box
The Belonging Band
The Belonging App
The Belonging App
The Belonging Kiosk
JUPITER
VENUS
Jupiter is the biggest planet in our Solar System and also the fourth-brightest object in the sky
Venus has a beautiful name and is the second planet from the Sun. It’s terribly hot, even hotter than Mercury
The Belonging Kiosk App
Retrieval Location
(Next Step in Scaling the Solution)
Thank You!
Questions?