Blog New reentry legislation will bar housing discrimination based on an arrest, juvenile or sealed/expunged record By Mercedes G. González, Policy Specialist Reentry legislation dubbed the "Housing as a Human Right…chicoalitionAugust 26, 2019
Blog Asking for help is not a crime: Lawsuit challenges state and local panhandling restrictions Saying they have been punished just for asking for help, two men sued state and…chicoalitionAugust 21, 2019
News Chicago Sun-Times, Mark Brown: Homeless advocates ‘deeply disappointed’ by Lightfoot betrayal, shift to ‘business-as-usual’ politics The falling out between the new mayor and the Bring Chicago Home coalition that once…chicoalitionAugust 20, 2019
Blog Bring Chicago Home: Advocates charge Mayor Lightfoot with breaking promise for major increase in aid to homeless; say she’s resurrecting ‘business as usual’ in city government Lightfoot’s decision to eliminate funding for homelessness from proposed tax increase on affluent property sales…chicoalitionAugust 20, 2019
Blog StreetLight Chicago: Book-a-Bed adds access to more youth shelter beds More beds have been added to Book-a-Bed! The shelter-access feature is offered on StreetLight Chicago,…chicoalitionAugust 16, 2019
News Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago, Sanctuary: Interview with Doug Schenkelberg In the August edition of Sanctuary, Nisan Chavkin, Executive Director of the Council of Religious…chicoalitionAugust 8, 2019
News Crain’s Chicago Business, Doug Schenkelberg: Chicago, let’s be a leader on solving homelessness Hopes for Chicago series - #Lightfoot100 It can be done. The reasons people become homeless…chicoalitionAugust 6, 2019
Blog Bring Chicago Home: Majority of Chicago aldermen sign onto proposal to combat homelessness Proposal Would Fulfill Mayor’s Campaign Promise by Increasing One-Time Tax on Sales of Properties Worth…chicoalitionJuly 24, 2019
News Chicago Tribune, Mary Schmich – ‘My family is my heart’: How Tavarion Foster made his way from homelessness to college By Mary Schmich On a Thursday night in late June, Tavarion Laquon Foster put on…chicoalitionJuly 7, 2019
Blog Large numbers of homeless Chicagoans are working, been to college, new CCH study finds ONE IN FIVE OF CITY’S HOMELESS ADULTS ARE EMPLOYED, NEARLY ONE IN THREE HAVE SOME…chicoalitionJuly 2, 2019