Homelessness in Chicago – Bring Chicago Home

Wherever we call home, we all live with homelessness

Homelessness is more than just living on the street.

It’s living in a shelter or spending your nights on someone else’s couch.
It’s not having an address to call your own, and not having the means to obtain one.

More than 65,000 People are homeless in Chicago

MANY ARE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

NEARLY 1 IN EVERY 4 ARE CHILDREN

LGBTQ YOUTH ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE HOMELESSNESS

AS THEIR NON-LGBTQ PEERS

3 IN EVERY 4 ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR

ALMOST HALF ARE FAMILIES

MANY ARE VETERANS

MANY ARE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

NEARLY 1 IN EVERY 4 ARE CHILDREN

LGBTQ YOUTH ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE HOMELESSNESS

AS THEIR NON-LGBTQ PEERS

3 IN EVERY 4 ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR

ALMOST HALF ARE FAMILIES

MANY ARE VETERANS

Bring Chicago Home means helping people like...

Patricia, who lost her home after she lost her husband. “There’s a lot of different circumstances that cause you to be [homeless].”

Maxica, who lost her job and home while battling cancer. “To have that key and open up that door… for my children…it was the greatest joy.”

Charles, who co-founded Chicago Coalition for the Homeless’ Speakers Bureau. “In a just society, people and policies that work toward upward mobility…are the right thing to do.”