The city of Chicago has picked 75 chronically homeless people living in tent encampments along North Lake Shore Drive for an experiment of sorts. For the first time, the city is proposing to rapidly find them housing, an idea that may seem elementary but is actually almost revolutionary here. Patterned after a “housing first” model that has shown promise in other cities, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration is aiming to find the 75 homeless people a place to live within 60 to 90 days. Instead of the customary approach of requiring them to first sort out some of the personal problems that might have contributed to their homelessness, the new plan is to get them a...
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