Months after voters rejected the Bring Chicago Home referendum, and amid a recent Supreme Court ruling, Chicago is at a critical juncture on how to address its rapidly growing homeless population.
Robert Bulanon glanced at the sky and frowned at the rain. He hurried into his home and emerged, holding an umbrella over his head, picking his way between a barbershop pole, a pair of bus seats, a wheelbarrow, a grill where another man was cooking beef stew, and other objects scattered along the embankment of the canal.
“They said, ‘We’re here to help; we could send you somewhere, a shelter or something,’” Bulanon recalled of his first interaction with the city., which sought to raise millions for homelessness services by raising the city’s real estate transfer tax for property sales above $1 million, Chicago is at a critical juncture on how to address its rapidly growing homeless population.
“It is absolutely not our plan to focus on any type of incarceration,” she said. “We really want to ensure that our unhoused community does not find this to be a reason to be afraid of their local administration.” “What’s needed to solve homelessness is investment in housing and services that people need to stay in housing,” said Patricia Nix-Hodes, the director of the coalition’s law project.
Salema Bowie, 37, a homeless man living in Humboldt Park, said Chicago is “definitely kinder than some other cities” to people who sleep outside. A police officer patrols through a tent encampment in the northeast corner of Humboldt Park on June 26, 2024, in Chicago.
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