The nation's economic slowdown and the city's dwindling stock of affordable housing are aggravating Chicago's homelessness problem, with no happy end in sight for 2003.
Researchers at Chicago Coalition for the Homeless estimate that the number of homeless people in the city will reach 60,000 people with an average of 15,000 people seeking shelter every night this winter.
As the city adds magnificent new middle- and upper-income housing to neighborhoods on the lake shore and Near North sides, earnings of the poor continue to slide backwards, further distancing them from the point of being able to afford decent dwellings.
The Coalition for the Homeless said that in 2003 …
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