Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is turning its focus to resettling asylum-seekers amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis that’s seen thousands of new arrivals since last August.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Migrants board a CTA bus shortly before being transferred from the High Ridge YMCA shelter to Daley College on June 13, 2023, in Chicago.
To be sure, the city’s challenges are immense. Shelters are still at capacity, which has led to migrants sleeping on the floors at police stations and struggling to gather resources. Moving asylum-seekers to large congregate settings has also been fraught in some cases with both resistance from existing residents andA 6-year-old child watches videos while resting on an air mattress next to other migrants on May 22, 2023, at the Chicago Police Department's 7th District station in Englewood.
Efforts to resettle some of the migrants from city-run shelters to more permanent homes began in April, when the Department of Housing allocated $4 million for the program dubbed Asylum Seeker Emergency Rental Assistance. So far, 109 households have been resettled into permanent housing, and 285 currently have signed leases or are in the process of moving within the next 15 to 30 days, Pacione-Zayas said.
Other volunteers attempting to help people housed at a Leone Beach Park shelter wrote to local aldermen in May that the staff there “has been at best, discouraging of our efforts, and at worst openly hostile.” Erendira Rendon, vice president of immigrant justice at the Resurrection Project, a community-based organization has been at the forefront of welcoming asylum-seekers and advising city leaders on their response, said she welcomes the new administration’s approach.
Earlier this month, Pacione-Zayas met with several community leaders, including the Janet Murguia, the president of Unidos US, formerly National Council of La Raza, the country’s largest Latino nonprofit advocacy organization, to discuss how community organizations could work together to better assess and help asylum-seekers to fully resettle in the city.
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