Two women, who asked not to be named, tend to a kitten dropped off at their tent encampment at a rail underpass in the 3000 block of West Chicago Avenue... The post Chicago Tribune: In Chicago’s tent cities, ‘a multitude of challenges’ to address the city’s rising homelessness appeared first on Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness.

By Tessa Weinberg, June 7, 2024 More than 18,800 Chicagoans experienced homelessness on a single night in January — a threefold increase over last year that was largely driven by... The post WBEZ: Chicago’s homeless population increased threefold, a city snapshot shows, owing largely to migrants appeared first on Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness.

By Wendy Wei and Leslie Hurtado, April 29, 2024 While anti-migrant sentiments have been expressed by many Chicagoans of different backgrounds, much media focus has been on the Black community’s historical tension with... The post South Side Weekly: ‘Everyone Is Mad at the Wrong People’: Black Organizers Call for Focus and Nuance in the Affordable Housing Blame Game appeared first on Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness.

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, alongside 27 partner organizations, filed an amicus brief, raising the importance of the case and the impact on people experiencing homelessness in Chicago and Illinois.  The post Oral Arguments Begin in Johnson v. Grants Pass Case, Determining the Constitutionality of Criminalizing Homelessness  appeared first on Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness.

By Allison Beck and Julius Philp, April 9, 2024 Multiple studies in cities across the country, including New York City, Chicago and Houston, have shown that not only does the PIT count miss people that... The post Logan Center: Many of the city’s homeless are not on the streets on a rainy winter night appeared first on Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness.