Question about homeless people in Chicago. Cold weather related.

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Obviously people cant spend the night outside with tents, card board boxes, a bunch of old blankets, and a barrel fire, in these conditions.

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Sure they can.

It will about a 100

I would be homeless in Miami. I froze my arse off in Chicago and I had a hotel.

Yea I would be sleeping in a hospital ER waiting room or something similar

Some will commit a misdemeanor and get locked up for a few days, until the cold weather passes. It seemed like we always picked up the same people for the same stupid shite, year after year during the cold snaps.

Serious answer - several ways:

- Many, probably most, find a shelter for a few days

- The city provides emergency funds for things like "warming centers" - just neighborhood community centers opened 24 hours - in some of the rougher parts of town and they'll park buses overnight near tent cities

- Some of the true blue addicts will take over abandoned homes for a few days in the run down hoods - they'll get heat the old-fashioned way

- Quite a few will end up spending very large amounts of time on or near public transit - the trains run 24/7, and they're warm and relatively clean

- Downtown has basically a subterranean city (where some of the urban underground scenes in the Nolan-directed Batman movies were filmed) in and near the Loop that is typically much warmer and even bearable - some will congregate there

Last couple of times this has happened here, no more than a handful of people froze to death, and they are typically addicts who are out-of-their-mind high or the older and immobile homeless (or both). We typically get a couple of dozen deaths in total from hypothermia each year. It's not a problem of open beds or warm places to be to prevent people from freezing to death - it's a problem of information and transportation (or staying clean long enough).

Real lack of initiative and planning by our politicians on this all around. In the 90's cities bought homeless one way tickets to Hawaii. What were the results? Homeless people and poverty everywhere in downtown honolulu. Shame on politicians for not being proactive and buying homeless tickets to Chicago/Minnesota during this event and solving the homeless crisis

Culling of the herd.

Too bad the Obama Presidential Library isn’t open yet. Would serve as a great homeless shelter.

they been doing it for 50 years so why is today any different?

darwin takes those too stupid to make it and every last one of them is homeless by choice. they rather not work and pay rent because there is always some bleeding heart looking to take care of them.