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Schenkelberg is the director of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, a more than 40-year-old nonprofit that advocates for public policies to end homelessness. "Migrants being in Chicago or ...
Nearly 19,000 people were experiencing homelessness in Chicago in January, more than three times as many as last year, as the city struggled to manage the thousands of newly arrived migrants in ...
The city and state are in the planning stages to combine Chicago’s legacy homeless shelter system with its system for migrants, according to government officials, and turn it into a unified ...
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.It includes living on the streets, moving between temporary accommodation with family or friends, living in boarding houses with no security of tenure, [1] and people who leave their homes because of civil conflict and are refugees within their country.
The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless was founded in 1980 with a clear mission statement to organize and advocate to prevent and end homelessness, because they believe housing is a human right in a just society. [2] In the early days, the CCH focused on advocating for basic rights for the homeless. In December 1992, Illinois passed the first ...
Conversely, homelessness can cause further health issues, due to constant exposure to environmental threats such as violence and communicable diseases. Homeless people have disproportionately high rates of poly substance use, mental illness, physical health problems and legal issues/barriers in attaining employment. [194]
Mental illness in Alaska is a current epidemic that the state struggles to manage. The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness stated that as of January 2018, Alaska had an estimated 2,016 citizens experiencing homelessness on any given day while around 3,784 public school students experienced homelessness over the course of the year as well. [10]
As you step into Chicago's third district police station on the city's South Side, the first thing you see is not the typical hustle and bustle of law enforcement, but rather, dozens of Venezuelan ...