Alderman, City Officials to Discuss Homelessness In Uptown Monday

UPTOWN — The city's Department of Family and Support Services will host a meeting on Monday to discuss its homelessness pilot program.

Lisa Morrison Butler, Commissioner of the Department of Family and Support Services, will visit Weiss Hospital, 4646 N. Marine Dr., at 7 p.m. to update the community on the project.

"All are welcome" at the meeting, tweeted Ald. James Cappleman (46th).

When the pilot program was launched in April, it set a goal to find permanent housing for 75 individuals it categorized as chronically homeless who were living under viaducts on the North Side.

The housing was supposed to be provided within 60 to 90 days, but at the end of July the program had housed only 18 individuals "with more eligible and ready to be housed in the coming weeks," according to Jennifer Rottner, spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services.

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