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| Chicago eliminates migrant-only shelters, 'landing zone' |
| 2024-10-24 |
| [FoxNews] The Windy City is merging its migrant shelter system with the city’s traditional homeless shelter system. Chicago is shutting down its migrant-only shelter system and merging it with the city’s traditional homeless shelter system. The Windy City is also closing its "landing zone" for migrants where newly arrived migrants get shelter placements and other resources. The landing zone will close at the end of 2024 and is now only open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., as opposed to also being open overnight. The moves come as the number of migrants arriving in the Windy City continues to drop. At its peak in late-December, the city was housing about 14,900 migrants, but that has fallen to around 5,000, per reports. The overhaul will see 3,800 beds added to the city’s current homeless services system of 3,000 legacy beds in a new strategy being labeled as the One System Initiative (OSI). The new strategy aims to streamline operations and reduce the high cost of operating the migrant shelters, which have stretched the city’s budget. "We are shifting to a more cost-effective, equitable, and strategic approach that addresses homelessness for all who need support in the City of Chicago," Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday in a press release announcing the plan. "This transition is in line with the sharp decline in migration to Chicago and our current budget realities." The press release states that the OSI is a "unified sheltering system to serve all Chicagoans" which will take effect by the new year. Johnson took a swipe at Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who began busing thousands of migrants to the Windy City in 2022 because of its sanctuary city status as Texas struggled to cater to an unprecedented surge of migrants arriving in the Lone Star state under the Biden-Harris administration. "We fought back and showed the world just how welcoming we can be," Johnson said at a press briefing, per WTTW. |
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