A campaign that has some aldermanic support calls for $30 million to be allocated to protect existing housing and supportive services for people experiencing homelessness.
CHICAGO — A coalition of housing and homelessness prevention groups are calling on the city to find more ways to fill financial gaps after warning that federal cuts could put at least 3,000 Chicagoans on the streets again next year.
The Keep Chicago Housed campaign calls for $30 million to be allocated in next year’s city budget to protect existing housing and supportive services for people experiencing homelessness and low-income renters relying on city-funded housing programs.
Last month, the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness launched the campaign in partnership with housing and advocacy groups, many of whom held a press conference outside City Hall on Thursday to highlight the ask alongside some progressive alderpeople who support the proposal.
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“Shelters are full, resources are thin, and in the middle of all this, we see Trump’s administration trying to actually reduce the number of Permanent Supportive Housing units that we have, rather than increasing, which is what we actually need,” said Mary Tarullo, director of city policy for the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness, which is leading the effort.
