Putting Children First: Ending Family Homelessness In Illinois: A Statewide Survey on Family Homelessness
Contributing Organization(s): Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
Author(s)/Creator(s): Samir Goswami
Publishing Date: 2001-12-01
Issue Areas: Children and Youth; Employment and Labor; Housing and Homelessness
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The recent economic recession and resulting layoffs compounded by a severe lack of affordable housing, lack of living wage jobs, and an increase in foreclosures, has caused increasing hardship for families in Illinois, including homelessness. This December 2001 study of seventeen agencies that serve homeless families in fifteen counties throughout Illinois and the eight warming centers (emergency shelters) in Chicago gathered information regarding family homelessness in Illinois. The agencies surveyed indicate an increase in family homelessness over the past year and specifically over the past two months. These results, and other recent research regarding the acute shortage of affordable housing in Illinois points towards the increasing need for Illinois to invest in homelessness prevention initiatives and the development of affordable housing for the benefit of thousands of families and children.
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