Mayor Lori Lightfoot received failing grades in a report card from BringChiHome after assessing her progress on addressing homelessness in Chicago.
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“When you’re in school you get a progress report to see how you’re doing,” he said in an interview with WTTW News. “It’s time to see where she stands on things and where there’s room for improvement.” One-time investments won’t solve the city’s homelessness problem, according to Williams, who compared the situation to an often-quoted proverb. “If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime,” he said. “We don’t want to eat for just a day. We want to eat for a lifetime as citizens of Chicago. … Housing is a human right.”
. A proposal to put the question on the ballot currently has 17 aldermanic sponsors, according to the coalition.
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