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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
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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
News Chicago Tribune: Chicago to have one unified shelter structure for homeless and migrants, city and state officials say © Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/TNS By Nell Salzman, April 22 The city and state are…Vanessa AlvarezApril 22, 2024
News WBEZ: A U.S. Supreme Court case could affect homeless people in Chicago and Illinois Chicago Coalition for the Homeless filed suit against the city of Chicago on behalf of…Vanessa AlvarezApril 11, 2024
News Logan Center: Many of the city’s homeless are not on the streets on a rainy winter night Michelle Neal, an intern at Philadelphia’s Office of Homeless Services and group leader at the…Vanessa AlvarezApril 9, 2024
News Tribune: Bring Chicago Home–What voters need to know about the referendum Bring Chicago Home coalition members rally in front of the Thompson Center on November 7,…Vanessa AlvarezMarch 18, 2024