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Daley trumpets progress on homelessness, advocates doubtful
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On the eve of his 2003 re-election, Mayor Daley established a goal
of ending homelessness in Chicago by 2012 and embraced a plan to make
it happen.
It called for shifting the focus away from shelters and toward
permanent housing with a bottomless network of social services to
"rebuild souls," as Daley likes to say. It talked about replacing
1,000 of Chicago's 6,200 shelter beds over the first 18 months with
transitional or permanent housing.
On Thursday, Daley held a news con...
