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CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson debuted his pick for Chicago’s first chief homelessness officer during a Monday news conference that also saw him stand firm against the real estate lobby and other political adversaries over his progressive agenda. Sendy Soto, a former senior director at the Chicago Community Trust and ex-managing deputy commissioner at the city’s Department of Housing, will ...

CHICAGO — Despite the failure of the Bridge Chicago referendum, which would have changed property sale transfer taxes and direct millions into programs targeting the unhoused in the city, the mayor Monday forged ahead with his plan. The plan created a new chief homelessness officer, while pointing to a long-time affordable housing building reopening as […]

Sendy Soto, a former official with the city's Department of Housing and the co-chair of the housing committee in Johnson's transition team, will take on the job next week.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat, signed a bill ending a drug decriminalization experiment that was limited by challenges. The new bill does establish a way for treatment to be offered as an alternative to criminal penalties.

Mayor Brandon Johnson also appointed Sendy Soto as the city's first-ever chief homelessness officer along with the Lawson House Chicago ceremony.