Two years after Borderless uncovered inhumane conditions and the death of a five-year-old boy at a city-run shelter in Chicago, the local nonprofit outlet documented long waits for shelter placement and persistent issues with shelter conditions, in a new investigation supported by the Fund. Reporters Aydali Campa and Katrina Pham obtained public records and interviewed shelter residents, including one who said he stayed at an intake center for six months waiting to be placed in a shelter. Earlier this year, the city merged its troubled shelter systems for homeless people and migrants into one system, aiming to provide seamless services for anyone in the city struggling with housing stability, but the new investigation shows that the city is struggling to connect residents with shelters.
Grantee documents continued problems in Chicago’s newly merged shelter system for homeless people and migrants
