Doug Schenkelberg
Executive Director at Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness. Also a guy that runs and makes an occasional cocktail. Views are my own.
- Thanks to @wbez.org & @chicago.suntimes.com for covering @chicagohomeless.bsky.social‘s updated homelessness estimate. Hear a discussion on it today at 4:00 CST with @brian-goldstone.bsky.social! Registe here - act.chicagohomeless.org/a/estimate
- Thanks to @chicagomag.com for talking to me about encampments for @chicagohomeless.bsky.social.
- Housing advocate Doug Schenkelberg, executive director of @ChiHomeless, weighs in on the sticky issue of encampments. www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...
- Want to help @chicagohomeless.bsky.social step up in this moment to push back on bad policy from the feds? Join our staff As our new Federal Advocacy Fellow! Share widely. chicagocoalitiontoendhomelessness.applytojob.com/apply/68Y7VR...
- So well deserved. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
- I’ll keep it simple. Callahan is holding these clogs until I raise $5,000 for @chicagohomeless.bsky.social for #GivingTuesday. It’s unconventional, but these are crazy times. Thank you for supporting CCH & saving the clogs. Donate here - donate.chicagohomeless.org/page/GivingT...
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- HUD is going make thousands of formerly homeless people homeless again through their funding and policy changes. We will see it in our shelters, in encampments, and in doubled-up households.
- Combine this horrible policy change with SNAP and Medicaid work requirements. With the coming loss of ACÁ insurance subsidie. With decimating funding for homeless youth in school. It adds up intentional cruelty and pain for people at the margins.
- Reposted by Doug Schenkelbergthe @chicagoreader.com also put together know your rights resources for unhoused folks interacting with federal agents in chicago, based on the excellent information compiled by @chicagohomeless.bsky.social. they're available in spanish: chicagoreader.com/news/conozca... and english:
- I appreciate both @katieprout.bsky.social’s write-up and @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’sshout out to @chicagohomeless.bsky.social‘s workin his recent visit to Chicago to discuss his excellent book “There is No Place for Us.” We can’t solve homelessness without first understanding its true scope.
- Reposted by Doug SchenkelbergWith 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.
- NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
- 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. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/01/b...
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- 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.
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- Share with your networks. Direct, low barrier cash assistance works.
- The Edrika Fulford Mutual Aid Fund reopens Oct 16 at 10 am! 400 applications will be accepted online or by phone, entered into a lottery & undergo review. Applying does not guarantee funding. 💻 chicagohomeless.org/MAF 📞📞 (312) 641-4148 (Mon-Fri, 10am - 2pm)
- Believing that homelessness is the result of ”individual choices” allows you to avoid discomfort and abdicate yourself of responsibility for contributing to systemic solutions.
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- Reposted by Doug SchenkelbergA 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.
- 🚨 Information Card: Know Your Rights as an Unsheltered Person - Federal Enforcement in Chicago // Conozca sus derechos como persona experimentando falta de vivienda: Aplicación de la ley federal en Chicago chicagohomeless.org/outreach/
- @chicagohomeless.bsky.social and our partners are doing everything we can to ensure the safety of those experiencing homelessness
- Reposted by Doug SchenkelbergWe 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.
- Reposted by Doug SchenkelbergThe 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.
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- Which underlines the reality that this president doesn’t care about solving homelessness. He just wants to hide it.
- A President who wanted to solve homelessness would draw a straight line between this news & more unhoused people. Then they would find ways to increase rental assistance, stabilize rent costs & increase supply. That would be solution oriented. www.redfin.com/news/rental-...
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- This. All of it.
- 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.
- "Homelessness is a housing problem,” CCH Executive Director Doug Schenkelberg said on @wttw.bsky.social's Chicago Tonight. “Between stagnant wages and unaffordable housing, many people are one to two paychecks away from experiencing homelessness.”
- “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.
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- Keep in mind this growth in homelessness happened BEFORE Trump took office. With him and the Republicans in Congress aiming to drastically cut funding, we will see these numbers go much higher. We need to fight the cuts & fight for new state & local funding.
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- It may feel hard to find tangible things we can do to push back in this moment, but here is one. Raise your voice and ask your legislator to use theirs. We can ban the criminalization of homelessness in Illinois. Take action now. Share with your networks. Let’s get a win.
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- Excited to dig into @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s important new book and happy to see @chicagohomeless.bsky.social’s Homeless Data Project highlighted.
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- “We choose how we treat our most vulnerable neighbors. Illinois can build a more just and effective approach to homelessness that addresses systemic failures, or we can choose to criminalize people for surviving them.” @chicagohomeless.bsky.social & @housingactionil.bsky.social
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- This change will hurt people. Full stop.
- Reposted by Doug SchenkelbergIn preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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- In 2025, Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness will double down & continue to organize & advocate to prevent & end homelessness. To all the people & businesses that said you care about homelessness as you fought to defeat Bring Chicago Home - where are you?
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- This increase in homelessness is coming at the same time communities are shifting to policies that criminalize people for having no home. We need housing. We need funding for housing.
- Homelessness continues to rise. We are going to solve this problem without long term, substantial funding for housing and services. Period.
- “Kenneth Jones’s and Tema Okun’s definition of the “right to comfort” haunts me: “The belief that those with power have a right to emotional and psychological comfort … I have a right to be comfortable, and if I am not, then someone else is to blame.” “ This. It plays out over & over.
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- Heyyyy, Bluesky. Wanna help Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness this #GivingTuesday? I knew you did. Click below to give what you can and help us fight back. act.chicagohomeless.org/P2P/Ewd0ntXh...
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- Callahan thinks you should support Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness this #GivingTuesday and help us fight back. Can you help us reach our goal? act.chicagohomeless.org/P2P/Ewd0ntXh...
- I’m so frustrated we have waste time on fighting stupid ordinances like this one. Our time should be spent on the housing & services that solve homelessness.
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- “The officers are civil, but every encounter causes me apprehension and stress. I’m innocent of any wrongdoing, but the interaction between a citizen and law enforcement is unbalanced by nature.” This. You don’t need tickets or arrests.
- Sadly, our system is designed to manage homelessness, not solve it. And it’s failing miserably at management.
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