Mayor Johnson at 6 Months: The Biggest Challenges to His Administration – Chicago Defender

Said Ted Williams III, "He’s an educator. He’s a member of the faith community. Those groups are very connected to the African-American community. But African Americans feel very threatened by this migrant issue and are upset that he has announced that [the city] is opening 10 new migrant shelters. They’re opening a shelter downtown, and they found the funding for that. There are people in the African-American community who say, 'Wait a second, how can you find the money for this right now, and we have these 68,000 homeless people in Chicago right now?'"