Chicago is allocating $40 million in grants to modernize seven homeless shelters.
The funds aim to provide capital improvements to create healthier, safer, less congregate and more accessible facilities that will serve families with children, unaccompanied youth, adult single women and men, and returning citizens.
The funding is part of the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services’ Shelter Infrastructure Initiative, the largest local shelter capital investment in Chicago’s history, according to city officials. It builds on $30 million in related investments by the Department of Housing, and reflects a citywide commitment to creating non-congregate, accessible, dignified, and trauma-informed shelter environments for people experiencing homelessness, they said…