Chicago Continuum News Today

Chicago is one of six sites selected for new initiative to address unsheltered homelessness.

The Chicago Housing Commissioner announced City Hall will finance permanent supportive housing for people leaving incarceration.

The Tribune first reported on the situation at O’Hare in January, sharing 77-year-old Norbert Pikula’s story as one of the many homeless people who spend their nights at one of the country’s busiest airports.

Amid a growing population of homeless people taking refuge in Chicago’ O’Hare International Airport, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city won’t allow unhoused people to sleep at the airports anymore.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge announced the funding while visiting a Far South Side apartment complex Thursday that houses families exiting homelessness.

Inflation, especially in rent costs, is driving the increase in the number of people — many of whom are senior citizens — without housing across the U.S.

Homeless Chicagoans are receiving COVID-19 vaccines as part of a city strategy to aggressively reduce transmission of the virus and work toward an equitable distribution of the vaccine, city officials said.