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October 6, 2011 at 5:20 pm
William Booker
City and State Cuts Homeless Services
By William J. Booker
Families are losing their homes to foreclosures but the city has no
plans to help homeless families get into shelters and off the streets.
An estimated 93,000 people are homeless in Chicago and although the
numbers are rising due to the bad economy, funding homeless services
isn’t a priority for the city or the state.
The state has cut 4.7 million in its budget for homeless services and
in 2010– Chicago officials reported an 11% rise in homelessness among
single adults but decided last month to cut services for the homeless
in spite of their own data.
The irony is– the city workers responsible for picking up the homeless
and take them to shelters every night might soon be facing similar
hardships themselves after city officials made the decision to lay-off
an entire shift of human service workers from twelve midnight to eight
in the morning.
But city workers and the homeless may not be the only ones
effected by the city’s decision because those same human service
workers that lost their jobs were also responsible for transporting
fire victims to a hotel or to a relative’s home in the early morning
hours– a time when most fires occur.
Fire victims may now have to seek refuge in the home of a neighbor or
be left in the cold until a warming bus or Red Cross arrives.