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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Srta Beatriz Ponce de Leon: “we absolutely have the resources to accommodate this level of homelessness”. What a shameful statement.
Obama, Valerie Jarret and others engaged in Remaking America are pleased.
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.
>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).
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.
Chicago doesn't have what it takes to educate anybody, though they do have buildings that are officially considered schools.
They are all ILLEGAL ALIENS.
Educate? Hahahahahahaha!! All they need is to learn English so that they can be properly indoctrinated.
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