General Discussion

(And it’s over 30,000 now)

BUT!

There’s only so many shelters there. Unlike warm weather and border states, IL is cold for 6 months out of the year. It’s almost impossible for the regular Chicago homeless population to survive outside over the winter without significant resources. Add on 30k more people that also need expensive outdoor clothing and housing (at minimum) and it IS a crisis.

To reiterate, it’s cruel, inhumane and quite deadly to send folks north without any ability to clothe and house them properly. That’s the problem.

Biden needs to be coordinating a federal response to ensure these folks get to places that can help them. DEMS need to step up. Pritzker has said IL will help but he’s demanding more federal funding to buy old hotels or rehab closed schools for shelters for example