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Chicago’s homeless population increased threefold, a city snapshot shows, owing largely to migrants
Chicago Sun Times ^ | Jun 7, 2024 | Tessa Weinberg

Posted on 06/10/2024 5:15:45 AM PDT by Salman

More than 18,800 Chicagoans experienced homelessness on a single night in January — a threefold increase over last year that was largely driven by 13,900 asylum-seekers who had no permanent place to stay.

The estimates released Friday come from the city’s annual snapshot of the number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night. This year’s point-in-time count was conducted on Jan. 25 — shortly after the city saw its peak of the number of migrants it sheltered. During the count, 13,679 asylum-seekers were living in shelters, with 212 unsheltered.

Outside of the population of asylum-seekers, the number of people who were in city shelters or staying on the street saw an uptick to 4,945 — a 25% increase from the 3,943 “non-new arrivals” who were sheltered and unsheltered last year.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aliens; chicago; homeless
Destroying the system by overwhelming it.
1 posted on 06/10/2024 5:15:45 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Srta Beatriz Ponce de Leon: “we absolutely have the resources to accommodate this level of homelessness”. What a shameful statement.


2 posted on 06/10/2024 5:47:52 AM PDT by Migraine ( )
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To: Migraine

Obama, Valerie Jarret and others engaged in Remaking America are pleased.


3 posted on 06/10/2024 5:57:35 AM PDT by frog in a pot ("a (NBC), or Citizen of the (US), at the time of the Adoption of this Const." - has a meaning.)
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To: Salman

There’s a term for that.
I feel for the US Citizens that are getting crowded out of resources. Things like using soccer fields for ‘newcombers’ settlements is disruptive to community agency.


4 posted on 06/10/2024 6:07:21 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: Salman

>Destroying the system by overwhelming it.

I for one WELCOME the destruction, as ‘the system’ has little to NO legal, let alone Constitutional, basis to exist (SEE: the ‘welfare state’ as one example).


5 posted on 06/10/2024 6:11:58 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: Salman

Wait until the schools open in the fall. All hell is going to break loose. American doesn’t have what it takes to educate every clown on the planet.


6 posted on 06/10/2024 6:22:23 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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American doesn’t have what it takes to educate every clown on the planet.

Chicago doesn't have what it takes to educate anybody, though they do have buildings that are officially considered schools.

7 posted on 06/10/2024 7:25:30 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman
Migrants
Asylum seekers
Undocumented
Newcomers
Recent arrivals

They are all ILLEGAL ALIENS.

8 posted on 06/10/2024 7:47:21 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Educate? Hahahahahahaha!! All they need is to learn English so that they can be properly indoctrinated.


9 posted on 06/10/2024 9:12:55 AM PDT by webheart
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