News WTTW Chicago Tonight: Chicago, Illinois Advocates Hope Impact of Supreme Court’s Homelessness Ruling Muted Locally “Just because the Supreme Court has overturned this order doesn’t mean cities should just…Vanessa AlvarezJuly 2, 2024
News Chicago Tribune: In Chicago’s tent cities, ‘a multitude of challenges’ to address the city’s rising homelessness Two women, who asked not to be named, tend to a kitten dropped off at…Vanessa AlvarezJuly 1, 2024
BlogNews CCH’s Response to the Supreme Court’s Decision to Criminalize Street Homelessness Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) is deeply disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court limited…chicoalitionJune 28, 2024
News NBC NEWS: Three times as many people were experiencing homelessness in Chicago this year as migrant numbers surged By Daniella Silva, June 10, 2024 Nearly 19,000 people were experiencing homelessness in Chicago in…chicoalitionJune 10, 2024
News WBEZ: Chicago’s homeless population increased threefold, a city snapshot shows, owing largely to migrants By Tessa Weinberg, June 7, 2024 More than 18,800 Chicagoans experienced homelessness on a single…chicoalitionJune 7, 2024
News WTTW: Number of Unhoused Chicagoans Tripled Amid Surge of Migrants, Survey Found By Heather Cherone, June 7, 2024 The number of Chicagoans living in city shelters or…chicoalitionJune 7, 2024
News South Side Weekly: ‘Everyone Is Mad at the Wrong People’: Black Organizers Call for Focus and Nuance in the Affordable Housing Blame Game By Wendy Wei and Leslie Hurtado, April 29, 2024 Wendy Benitez and her daughter walk down the sidewalk.…Vanessa AlvarezApril 29, 2024
Joan Esposito hears from Camilla Krauss, CCH Staff Attorney of the Law Project. Tune in at 1:41. https://soundcloud.com/wcpt820/live-local-progressive-with-joan-esposito-april-26-2024
News Chicago Defender: Legacy of Inequitable Housing Access–How a Black Family’s Story Echoes Today’s Fight A Chicago Defender article from 1946 that chronicles the Hemmons family becoming unhoused. By Tacuma…Vanessa AlvarezApril 22, 2024
BlogNews Oral Arguments Begin in Johnson v. Grants Pass Case, Determining the Constitutionality of Criminalizing Homelessness Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, alongside 27 partner organizations, filed an amicus brief, raising the…Vanessa AlvarezApril 22, 2024