Bring Chicago Home Campaign cheers aldermen who endorse its proposal in newly released 100-Day agenda

One day after hundreds gathered at a Town Hall meeting to urge Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot to prioritize a plan to combat homelessness, the Bring Chicago Home campaign received another boost Thursday when a bloc of newly elected progressive aldermen embraced the campaign as one of the chief initiatives in their “Agenda to Re-imagine Chicago.”

In response to this announcement, Bring Chicago Home released the following statement:

“We’re thankful to these eight new aldermanic leaders and Ald. Ramirez-Rosa for recognizing that alleviating Chicago’s massive homeless problem is an urgent priority — a belief that 77% of city voters echoed in a 2018 poll. Chicago’s financial commitment to combating homelessness has fallen woefully short under previous administrations and ranks near the bottom of the 10 U.S. cities with the largest homeless populations. As a result, more than 80,000 Chicagoans are currently homeless, and one in every three of them are children.  

The recent election, where issues of housing affordability reverberated at the polls, ushered in a new mayor and new aldermen who clearly understand that this has to change.  With Mayor-Elect Lightfoot supporting our goal, and the addition of these eight new aldermen to a preexisting City Council majority that backed it, as well, we’re confident that we will get our measure on the ballot next year and Bring Chicago Home.”