Not doing much better in Chi-Town than Seattle with making progress on their homeless population either.  They're slightly above the national 18% increase, at 300% in 2024.  ::)   Don't worry though, they have BIG PLANS in the works!

There are also plans to explore a $2 million rental assistance program for Chicagoans.

Let's see, if you divide up that $2M by the roughly 20K people who experienced homelessness last year for rental assistance, you can slip each of them a cool C-note one month this year to help with the rent.  ::) Forget the rent, maybe that's enough to keep the lights on for a month.  Are we just a little bit underfunded here?

Also highly encouraging is bringing the Chicago Public Schools and the Teacher's Union into a room together to work out how they can help with the homeless problem.  ::)    This makes sense since they do such a great job with running the school system.  Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the teachers are homeless.

Really this political farce which makes homelessness appear "insoluble" is ridiculous when it's a simple problem with an obvious solution.  BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS!  Don't issue any Building Permits for luxury housing until you have a surplus of apartments that rent for $1000/mo, or around 30% of the monthly income for a min wage worker.  Problem solved.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2025/01/04/homelessness-rate-chicago-migrants-affordable-housing

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