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.…chicoalitionApril 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…chicoalitionApril 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…chicoalitionApril 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…chicoalitionApril 22, 2024
BlogFeatured CCH’s Post-Election Statement as a Member of Bring Chicago Home Sharing and building power is how we address homelessness in Chicago. In 2017, a group…chicoalitionMarch 20, 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,…chicoalitionMarch 18, 2024
News Sun-Times: Housing loss, rising rents, evictions: How Chicago’s homelessness problem evolved Sun Times Affordable Housing By Alden Loury, Mar 9, 2024 A WBEZ analysis of Zillow…chicoalitionMarch 9, 2024
News ABC7: Public safety concerns around homelessness in Chicago as crisis grows By Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel, Tom Jones, Maggie Green and Adriana Aguilar on Thursday, February…chicoalitionFebruary 29, 2024
News WBEZ: Chicago’s elections board plans to appeal a ruling that invalidates tax referendum By Tessa Weinberg, Feb 27, 2024 The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners decided Tuesday it…chicoalitionFebruary 27, 2024