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Neighbors say the Gompers Park encampment has grown from just one tent to about 25 over the last two years, and have been asking Mayor Brandon Johnson for an Accelerated Moving Event, in which city case managers work with unhoused individuals to find them stable housing and provide rental assistance for up to 24 months. However, city officials told residents there was not enough funding to make that happen this year.
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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What’s the magic number of tent-dwellers needed in this area before it’s designated as the 78th Chicago neighborhood?
Cultural enrichment that they voted for.
Go,pers Park residents will vote 90% democrat in the upcoming election. They get what they deserve, suffering, and I hope a lot of it.
Maybe the mayor could put the homeless in empty CPS classrooms and count them as enrolled.
They would get an education on par with the one’s that had him for a teacher.
Maybe let some of the homeless teach too. They certainly can’t perform worse than the CTU vermin.