Mayor Brandon Johnson establishes city’s first chief homelessness officer – Chicago Sun-Times

The officer will be responsible for “fostering greater policy and operational coordination across city departments and sister agencies” to tackle the crisis, the mayor’s office said. The move comes a day ahead of a public hearing before the City Council on the mayor’s proposal to raise the real estate transfer tax on high-end home sales to create dedicated funding to combat homelessness.
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Where's Mine ???
2 years ago

Once again, why has Chicago only spent 15% of it’s fed COVID funds dedicated to homelessness??
https://illinoisanswers.org/2023/08/10/chicago-homeless-people-city-spent-15-percent-52-million-federal-money/

Bounced Out!
2 years ago

Let the Boondoggle begin!!!

Fullbladder
2 years ago

This is the city going down the path of San Francisco with a Homeless Industrial Complex.
San Francisco spends 10x of ANY city in the country, that’s where this is headed.

Riverbender
2 years ago

A new tax and a new patronage hiring event. Who says nothing new happens in Chicago?

Giddyap
2 years ago

Another do nothing bureaucratic political dumping ground

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