You Are Conducting Research on a Proposed New Low-Barrier Homeless

You are conducting research on a proposed new low-barrier homeless shelter near the local university. You want to see how different groups respond to this possibility, and how you can best address their concerns. Ideally you are interested in the perspectives of local full-time residents in the neighborhood, university administrators, owners of nearby businesses, and university students who live in the neighborhood. With a tight budget, you are limited to conducting seven focus groups. Thinking about how quickly you would reach saturation, which of the following is the best plan for the number and composition of the groups?

A) four with university administrators and one group with each of the other demographics
B) four with university students, two with local full-time residents, and one with a combination of business owners and university administrators
C) two with local residents, two with business owners, two with university students, and one with university administrators
D) seven mixed groups that each include people from all four of the demographics