What you need to know about ‘Bring Chicago Home’ – Illinois Policy

Advocates say $100 million in new money from the tax would go to homelessness efforts, but Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city have laid out no details as to how the money would help homeless Chicagoans; if passed, it would allow the city to raise taxes without binding the city to use the funds generated in any explicit way that guarantees helping the homeless. Plus, Chicago failed to spend 85 percent of the $52 million in federal pandemic relief funds it received for homeless efforts and already has the $200 million in its budget for homeless relief.