Study Warns of Accelerating Homelessness, Overcrowding in Chicago

“Chicago is gaining low-income households, including many large Latino households, much faster than it is gaining housing they can afford, a University of Illinois at Chicago report says.

If current trends continue through 2010, the city will see a marked increase in overcrowding, homelessness, and households burdened by rents they cannot afford, said Yittayih Zelalem, research assistant professor and co-director of UIC’s Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement.”

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