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How the pandemic produced a surprising silver lining in the fight against homelessness


When COVID-19 halted the world a little more than a year ago, one group of people appeared to be particularly vulnerable to this new, little-understood coronavirus: the homeless.
Often suffering from poor health and packed head-to-foot in shelters — known as congregate housing — homeless individuals were one of several groups of people who, it was feared, would be decimated by the spread of COVID-19.
While those experiencing homelessness did suffer COVID’s aggressive spread initially, a silver lining has emerged out of the deadly pandemic. Hotels, abandoned by business travelers and tourists, were used to house people who would otherwise be sleeping in congregate shelters or on pads arranged on the floor of a church basement. Social service agencies, doctors and those who stayed in the hotels are now calling it a game-changing model for how to stabilize people experiencing homelessness and get them into permanent housing and off the street for good. ....

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During COVID-19, many people who were homeless lived in Chicago-area hotels. Here's what was learned.


During COVID-19, many people who were homeless lived in Chicago-area hotels. Here’s what was learned.
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Nia Tavoularis, of Connections for the Homeless, at the Margarita European Inn in Evanston on April 9, 2021.
When COVID-19 halted the world a little more than a year ago, one group of people appeared to be particularly vulnerable to this new, little-understood coronavirus: the homeless.
Often suffering from poor health and packed head-to-foot in shelters known as congregate housing homeless individuals were one of several groups of people who, it was feared, would be decimated by the spread of COVID-19. ....

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