Doug Schenkelberg

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

“Cruz’s friend, who is homeless, did not have legal status and was taken away by the feds.”

It’s almost an afterthought in this article. We have no idea how many unhoused folks have been taken.

Bronzeville Homeless Shelter Residents 'Traumatized' After Feds Chase, Arrest 4 People The federal agents arrived in unmarked minivans and detained four people outside a shelter run by a local church's charity Wednesday.

ICE has hit three homeless shelters in the last week. All shelters that were set up to serve migrants.

So they forced people to move to Chicago, Chicago stood up shelters to support migrants, and the feds use those shelters as targets for their kidnapping.

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Downtown Chicago, today.

The little girl …

According to reporters on the ground, ICE is now **deliberately firing** what appears to be "non-lethals" at press at this morning's protest in Broadview, IL. One @unraveledpress.com reporter got hit.

Unraveled has been putting in serious work during this crisis--throw them some cash if you can.

LOCATION: N ALBANY AVE & W FOSTER AVE, SHELTER NEAR RIVER PARK DATE: SEPTEMBER 23, 2025 TIME: 11:00 AM ICE officials detained 2 people at the migrant shelter near River Park. Two Chevy Tahoes with tinted windows, one black without plates and one blue, were seen patrolling nearby. The situation is not ongoing, however, we advise community members to be alert. Alderwoman Rodríguez and city officials are aware and volunteers are monitoring the area. Situation is not ongoing, however we advise community members to be alert. IF YOU SEE THIS PLEASE REPORT TO ICIRR HOTLINE (855)-435-7693

NWSRR is now reporting ICE agents snatched two people at the migrant shelter near River Park this morning:

As I've said before, for a chronic, loggorrheic liar, Donald Trump can be shockingly honest, such as when he said at Charlie Kirk's funeral: "I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them.” That's why he wants to send the military into Chicago. Not to reduce crime, but to hurt the city.

Letters: Sweeps of tent encampments will do nothing to alleviate homelessness in Chicago A call for sweeps with a tone-deafness for service inadequacy will do nothing to decrease homelessness in Chicagoland.

Thanks to @chicagotribune.com for sharing @chicagohomeless.bsky.social & CFTEH‘s letter. No one wants people to have to sleep in parks or under viaducts or anywhere else unsheltered. Let’s come together around the solution - new revenue for permanent housing & service.

WSJ headline: "Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become ‘overly politicized’"

Truly outrageous. Erasing the evidence of mounting suffering won't make it go away.

It's just a matter of time before he cancels the annual homeless count.

“frontally addressing questions of deservingness” is the name of my new album.

Share with your networks. Direct, low barrier cash assistance works.

Believing that homelessness is the result of ”individual choices” allows you to avoid discomfort and abdicate yourself of responsibility for contributing to systemic solutions.

I found this post really helpful in wrapping my brain around the different agencies that might do Chicago raids.

The biggest takeaway: A lot of attention is on the the National Guard. But federal LEO's (ICE, FBI, etc.) can exert just as much (if not more) muscle & there's less to stop them.

Flash! Crime terror doesn't grip Chicago The blog of Neil Steinberg

My column on the front page of the Sun-Times today:

My original headline was "Flash! Crime terror (doesn't) grip Kill City!" But my editor thought that might confuse people. I liked "Kill City" myself.

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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.

Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

We prepared this Know Your Rights card in partnership with All Chicago to support the unsheltered on the coming weeks. We also created a phone line to answer question and help direct people to resources.

We are going to do all we can to protect people in this moment of threat.

@chicagohomeless.bsky.social and our partners are doing everything we can to ensure the safety of those experiencing homelessness

Pentagon planning military deployment to Chicago in coming weeks, report says The Washington Post reported Saturday that Defense Department officials have been planning for weeks to deploy federal troops to Chicago.

We are aware of reports that the Trump Administration may deploy federal troops to Chicago soon. We know that this may directly impact Chicagoans experiencing homelessness and many people—including us—are concerned and afraid of what might happen.

California’s hidden homeless children: living in garages, doubled-up and unseen Student homelessness in Monterey county soars as families struggle with high rent and scarce housing amid funding cuts

The fastest-growing homeless population in America? School-age children.

Last year, student homelessness in California—where rents continue to soar past wages—rose by 20,000, reaching its highest level in a decade.

But sure, keep insisting homelessness is all about mental illness and addiction.

Talked to kid who has first job out of undergrad helping folks on Medicaid w/ serious healthcare issues. Said something to me like "they all have housing issues, unstable, unsafe housing...so much of it tied to housing"

Housing instability is a cause, not just a symptom, of so many problems.

Which underlines the reality that this president doesn’t care about solving homelessness. He just wants to hide it.

Unlawful arrests and forced displacement of homeless D.C. residents expected today Advocates in D.C. expect the Trump administration to begin the illegal and inhumane jailing and institutionalization of homeless Washingtonians this morning at 10 A.M. The White House stated in…

UPDATE: Unlawful arrests and forced displacement of homeless D.C. residents expected to begin this morning at 10 AM with federal and local police throwing away tents at 62 encampments; arrests are expected to begin at nightfall to avoid media attention.https://buff.ly/gRAsxWS

@chicagohomeless.bsky.social’s annual homelessness estimate includes those that are doubled-up/couch surfing. Our analysis shows over 76,000 people experiencing homelessness in Chicago. To Brian’s point, people shift between modes of instability. All sweeps do is hide more people.

@chicagohomeless.bsky.social annual homelessness estimate includes those that are doubled-up/couch surfing. Our analysis shows over 76,000 people experiencing homelessness in Chicago. To Brian’s point, people shift between modes of instability. All sweeps do is hide more people.

This. All of it.

NYtimes reporting that Trump is spending more time talking about building a ballroom then where people experiencing homelessness in DC will go if evicted from an encampment at a press conference about taking over DC policing

This observation sums up Trump’s priorities and how little regard he has for people experiencing homelessness.

Glad to share @chicagohomeless.bsky.social’s position on Trump’s horrendous EO on Chicago Tonight with @brandisfriedman.bsky.social.

“Let me promise you something — if the police can declare an American citizen mentally ill for living in a tent in Lincoln Park and throw him into an asylum, it can also declare an American mentally ill for protesting that policy.”

Good reporting by @wbez.org & @chicago.suntimes.com on the real impact on Trump’s cruel, inhumane, and ineffective EO on homelessness.

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.