Skeptics expressed concern Monday morning about a pilot program to find housing for 75 homeless people now living in tent encampments along viaducts beneath Lake Shore Drive on the North Side. They also dismissed a related effort to use taxes from Airbnb and similar services to fund homeless assistance services. “The whole effort is to clean out the viaducts for yuppies going to festivals after they spent a whole winter of ignoring the problem,” said Andy Thayer, 56, who banded together with several other activists to form a group they’re calling Uptown Tent City Organizers. Ryne Poelker, a formerly homeless Uptown resident, said that after the 75 people are gone, along...
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