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According the city, 14,700 people have "exited shelter due to resettlement" in the Chicago area since the migrant crisis began, another 5,200 people have reunited with family and friends.
CHICAGO — After months of postponing shelter evictions for migrants, Mayor Brandon Johnson doubled down last week on Sunday’s deadline to remove migrants who had surpassed the 60-day limit.
The protests made international news [6] [7] and were widely condemned as unsafe and ill-advised, [8] although some political figures expressed support for the protests. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] They ranged in size from a few hundred people to a few thousand, and spread on social media with encouragement from former U.S. President Donald Trump .
In December 2020, the New York State Legislature passed a state moratorium on evictions. [11] In May 2021, the legislature extended the moratorium until August 31. [12]The Supreme Court struck down a provision of the state moratorium that protected people who filed a form declaring economic hardship, rather than providing evidence in court.
Demonstrations and protests were held in at least 30 communities around the state, with major demonstrations happening in Chicago. The vast majority of demonstrations were peaceful, though there were several instances of property damage or violence attributed to demonstrators or counter-protestors, the worst of which occurred in Aurora.
The first wave of evictions will come in mid-March, with 5,673 people expected to be removed from their current shelters by the end of April. Migrants stand outside one of the Chicago's largest ...
A rent strike, sometimes known as a tenants strike or a renters strike, is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords. In a rent strike, a group of tenants agree to collectively withhold paying some or all of their rent to their landlords en masse until demands are met.