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So far, more than 1,000 people in Illinois have been approved for rental assistance, with around $8.6 million disbursed and about 600 landlords renting to new arrivals, the agencies said. As of earlier this month, 548 of these households approved for rental assistance have signed leases for permanent housing in Chicago, with 271 of those households having moved in, according to a statement from the city.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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So, it looks like you don’t have to be a “new arrival” migrant bused from Texas or otherwise to apply for 3 months free rent + additional $15,000? If your one of the zillions of CURRENT undocumented imigrants you can simply go to city shelter claiming your homeless and then apply for city/state benefits?? You can even have income 80% or below the area median income and still apply!! Outrageous!!
And meanwhile, in my nw side hood there’s all kinds of folks living in the parks, bus shelters, etc.
EQUITY!!!
If your a regular US citizen homeless person, or advocate for, are you going to file lawsuit claiming discrimination that non-citizen migrant homeless are receiving disproportionately greater $services$ than you?
The city’s homeless program is discriminatory because it bizarrely sets TWO differnt standards and funding for loosely defined “new arrival” migrants and US citizen homeless. Is the current definition and funding for “new arrival” migrants legal or equal?
Chicago and IL moving ‘heaven and earth’ to accommodate illegal aliens. Citizen taxpayers – just pay up and move along.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/immigration/ct-biz-migrant-permanent-housing-20230721-6qmjjas3bvhstdoa2qxtkyclua-story.html