Three times as many people were experiencing homelessness in Chicago this year as migrant numbers surged

Nearly 19,000 people were experiencing homelessness in Chicago in January, more than three times as many as last year, as the city struggled to manage the thousands of newly arrived migrants in its shelter system. An annual city survey released Friday — a snapshot of estimated homelessness in Chicago on a single night — found that 18,836 people were without permanent housing on Jan. 25, up from 6,139 the year before.

“Fortunately, you see the majority of those asylum seekers were in shelter and if we hadn’t really met that moment, we would have seen a large unprecedented increase in our unsheltered population.” The increases also went beyond the migrant population.

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