Migrants frustrated at being forced out of Chicago shelters as city enforces 60-day stay limit
By Sabrina Franza
June 13, 2024 / 10:55 PM CDT / CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Some migrant families say they are being evicted from shelters—despite there being plenty of space left for them.
The City of Chicago is executing its 60-day shelter stay policy, offering to reprocess any asylum seeker who asks to reenter the shelter system. To date, the city said 970 individuals have exited the shelter system because of the 60-day limit on shelter stays—and of those, 554 have returned to the landing zone at Polk and Desplaines streets to be processed, and 536 have reentered the shelter system.
But some parents are choosing to avoid coming back to the landing zone at all. They would rather take their chances and risk homelessness after their shelter stay limits are up, because they do not trust the city will do the right thing.
Rosa—who asked to have her identity shielded—has been in the Pilsen migrant shelter on South Halsted Street for months. Now, she, her husband, and her son are looking for an apartment because they were evicted from the Halsted Street shelter—and placed into another one an hour and a half away.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/migrants-frustrated-forced-out-chicago-shelters-city-enforces-limit/
