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Doug Schenkelberg

@endhomeless.bsky.social
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Executive Director at Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness. Also a guy that runs and makes an occasional cocktail. Views are my own.

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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I’m so glad to see Brian’s incredible work getting the recognition it deserves. He’s written a singular work that has ignited a needed conversation. it’s a bright light in a moment we need bright lights.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A really thoughtful, in-depth piece on my book THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is now up on @cnn.com, by John Blake. It gets at what I've come to think of as the "shadow realm" of America's housing crisis: the vast, largely unseen world of the working homeless.
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Inside the ‘shadow realm’ of the affordability crisis | CNN
Author Brian Goldstone says the traditional story about those experiencing homelessness is a myth. Most of the US’ homeless live in an invisible “shadow realm,” he says, because even though they work ...
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
@chicagohomeless.bsky.social is looking for a justice-oriented person that knows advocacy to help lead our federal policy work. We are adding capacity so we can better take on the challenges of this moment. Please share widely! chicagocoalitiontoendhomelessness.applytojob.com/apply/Rt9vEg...
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Federal Advocacy Manager - Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness - Career Page
Apply to Federal Advocacy Manager at Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness in Chicago, IL.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Thanks to @wbez.org & @chicago.suntimes.com for covering @chicagohomeless.bsky.social‘s updated homelessness estimate. Hear a discussion on it today at 4:00 CST with @brian-goldstone.bsky.social! Registe here - act.chicagohomeless.org/a/estimate
act.chicagohomeless.org
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Thanks to @chicagomag.com for talking to me about encampments for @chicagohomeless.bsky.social.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
So well deserved. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I’ll keep it simple. Callahan is holding these clogs until I raise $5,000 for @chicagohomeless.bsky.social for #GivingTuesday. It’s unconventional, but these are crazy times. Thank you for supporting CCH & saving the clogs. Donate here - donate.chicagohomeless.org/page/GivingT...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Homelessness in the U.S. is far more pervasive than the official figures suggest: roughly four million people are without housing right now. Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them. I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
HUD is going make thousands of formerly homeless people homeless again through their funding and policy changes. We will see it in our shelters, in encampments, and in doubled-up households.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Combine this horrible policy change with SNAP and Medicaid work requirements. With the coming loss of ACÁ insurance subsidie. With decimating funding for homeless youth in school. It adds up intentional cruelty and pain for people at the margins.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
the @chicagoreader.com also put together know your rights resources for unhoused folks interacting with federal agents in chicago, based on the excellent information compiled by @chicagohomeless.bsky.social. they're available in spanish: chicagoreader.com/news/conozca... and english:
chicagoreader.com
What to know if you’re unhoused and stopped by federal agents
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have targeted unhoused Chicagoans in recent months. Here's what to know about your rights.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I appreciate both @katieprout.bsky.social’s write-up and @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’sshout out to @chicagohomeless.bsky.social‘s workin his recent visit to Chicago to discuss his excellent book “There is No Place for Us.” We can’t solve homelessness without first understanding its true scope.
chicagoreader.com
Profiting off precarity - Chicago Reader
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone, is an account of five Black families forced into homelessness.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“Cruz’s friend, who is homeless, did not have legal status and was taken away by the feds.” It’s almost an afterthought in this article. We have no idea how many unhoused folks have been taken.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
ICE has hit three homeless shelters in the last week. All shelters that were set up to serve migrants. So they forced people to move to Chicago, Chicago stood up shelters to support migrants, and the feds use those shelters as targets for their kidnapping. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/01/b...
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Bronzeville Homeless Shelter Residents 'Traumatized' After Feds Chase, Arrest 4 People
The federal agents arrived in unmarked minivans and detained four people outside a shelter run by a local church's charity Wednesday.
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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Downtown Chicago, today. The little girl …
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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
According to reporters on the ground, ICE is now **deliberately firing** what appears to be "non-lethals" at press at this morning's protest in Broadview, IL. One @unraveledpress.com reporter got hit. Unraveled has been putting in serious work during this crisis--throw them some cash if you can.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23/09/2025
NWSRR is now reporting ICE agents snatched two people at the migrant shelter near River Park this morning:
LOCATION: N ALBANY AVE & W FOSTER AVE, SHELTER NEAR RIVER PARK

DATE: SEPTEMBER 23, 2025

TIME: 11:00 AM

ICE officials detained 2 people at the migrant shelter near River Park.

Two Chevy Tahoes with tinted windows, one black without plates and one blue, were seen patrolling nearby. The situation is not ongoing, however, we advise community members to be alert. Alderwoman Rodríguez and city officials are aware and volunteers are monitoring the area. Situation is not ongoing, however we advise community members to be alert.

IF YOU SEE THIS PLEASE REPORT TO ICIRR HOTLINE

(855)-435-7693
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
As I've said before, for a chronic, loggorrheic liar, Donald Trump can be shockingly honest, such as when he said at Charlie Kirk's funeral: "I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them.” That's why he wants to send the military into Chicago. Not to reduce crime, but to hurt the city.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Thanks to @chicagotribune.com for sharing @chicagohomeless.bsky.social & CFTEH‘s letter. No one wants people to have to sleep in parks or under viaducts or anywhere else unsheltered. Let’s come together around the solution - new revenue for permanent housing & service.
chicagotribune.com
Letters: Sweeps of tent encampments will do nothing to alleviate homelessness in Chicago
A call for sweeps with a tone-deafness for service inadequacy will do nothing to decrease homelessness in Chicagoland.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Truly outrageous. Erasing the evidence of mounting suffering won't make it go away. It's just a matter of time before he cancels the annual homeless count.
WSJ headline: "Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become ‘overly politicized’"
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Share with your networks. Direct, low barrier cash assistance works.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Believing that homelessness is the result of ”individual choices” allows you to avoid discomfort and abdicate yourself of responsibility for contributing to systemic solutions.
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I found this post really helpful in wrapping my brain around the different agencies that might do Chicago raids. The biggest takeaway: A lot of attention is on the the National Guard. But federal LEO's (ICE, FBI, etc.) can exert just as much (if not more) muscle & there's less to stop them.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
My column on the front page of the Sun-Times today: My original headline was "Flash! Crime terror (doesn't) grip Kill City!" But my editor thought that might confuse people. I liked "Kill City" myself. www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/09/flas...
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Flash! Crime terror doesn't grip Chicago
The blog of Neil Steinberg
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
We prepared this Know Your Rights card in partnership with All Chicago to support the unsheltered on the coming weeks. We also created a phone line to answer question and help direct people to resources. We are going to do all we can to protect people in this moment of threat.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
@chicagohomeless.bsky.social and our partners are doing everything we can to ensure the safety of those experiencing homelessness
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Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness @chicagohomeless.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
We are aware of reports that the Trump Administration may deploy federal troops to Chicago soon. We know that this may directly impact Chicagoans experiencing homelessness and many people—including us—are concerned and afraid of what might happen.
chicago.suntimes.com
Pentagon planning military deployment to Chicago in coming weeks, report says
The Washington Post reported Saturday that Defense Department officials have been planning for weeks to deploy federal troops to Chicago.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The fastest-growing homeless population in America? School-age children. Last year, student homelessness in California—where rents continue to soar past wages—rose by 20,000, reaching its highest level in a decade. But sure, keep insisting homelessness is all about mental illness and addiction.
theguardian.com
California’s hidden homeless children: living in garages, doubled-up and unseen
Student homelessness in Monterey county soars as families struggle with high rent and scarce housing amid funding cuts
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Talked to kid who has first job out of undergrad helping folks on Medicaid w/ serious healthcare issues. Said something to me like "they all have housing issues, unstable, unsafe housing...so much of it tied to housing" Housing instability is a cause, not just a symptom, of so many problems.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Which underlines the reality that this president doesn’t care about solving homelessness. He just wants to hide it.
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National Homelessness Law Center @homelesslaw.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
UPDATE: Unlawful arrests and forced displacement of homeless D.C. residents expected to begin this morning at 10 AM with federal and local police throwing away tents at 62 encampments; arrests are expected to begin at nightfall to avoid media attention.https://buff.ly/gRAsxWS
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Unlawful arrests and forced displacement of homeless D.C. residents expected today
Advocates in D.C. expect the Trump administration to begin the illegal and inhumane jailing and institutionalization of homeless Washingtonians this morning at 10 A.M. The White House stated in…
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
This. All of it.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This observation sums up Trump’s priorities and how little regard he has for people experiencing homelessness.
NYtimes reporting that Trump is spending more time talking about building a ballroom then where people experiencing homelessness in DC will go if evicted from an encampment at a press conference about taking over DC policing
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Glad to share @chicagohomeless.bsky.social’s position on Trump’s horrendous EO on Chicago Tonight with @brandisfriedman.bsky.social.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“Let me promise you something — if the police can declare an American citizen mentally ill for living in a tent in Lincoln Park and throw him into an asylum, it can also declare an American mentally ill for protesting that policy.”
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Good reporting by @wbez.org & @chicago.suntimes.com on the real impact on Trump’s cruel, inhumane, and ineffective EO on homelessness.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.
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Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Keep in mind this growth in homelessness happened BEFORE Trump took office. With him and the Republicans in Congress aiming to drastically cut funding, we will see these numbers go much higher. We need to fight the cuts & fight for new state & local funding.
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Jesse Rabinowitz @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We did a run-through of this yesterday. Trust me, you won't want to miss this. I'm co-moderating this event. Hear from people across the country who have been victims of anti-homeless laws.
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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hundreds of immigrant advocates are rallying in downtown Chicago, chanting: “No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!” @wbez.org and @chicago.suntimes.com
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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
BREAKING: #Chicago finished this past month with the fewest #murders of any April since 1962, a @WBEZ analysis has found. The month’s 19 murders make 115 so far this year, the lowest January-through-April tally since 2014. www.wbez.org/cpd/2025/05/...
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Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness @chicagohomeless.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📢 CCH will hold its 3-day Community Organizing Training next month, May 21-23, at the CCH offices (70 E Lake St). Grow (or dust off) your organizing skills! Fill out the interest form by May 7: act.chicagohomeless.org/a/community-...
A blue graphic for CCH's Community Organizing Training event, happening from May 21-23. Features an individual writing on a flip chart with text detailing opportunities to enhance organizing skills and get involved at city and state levels. The background includes decorative elements and the text "Community Organizing Training" prominently displayed.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It may feel hard to find tangible things we can do to push back in this moment, but here is one. Raise your voice and ask your legislator to use theirs. We can ban the criminalization of homelessness in Illinois. Take action now. Share with your networks. Let’s get a win.
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Sara Rankin @profsararankin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
So many myths about homelessness hide the very human stories of the incredible people enduring it. I hope folks will read the new book by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social, which gives voice to many of these souls and exposes our own complicity. Review here: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...
nytimes.com
Book Review: ‘There Is No Place for Us,’ by Brian Goldstone
A new book by the journalist Brian Goldstone puts a spotlight on people who have jobs but no homes, whose struggles remain largely invisible.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Excited to dig into @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s important new book and happy to see @chicagohomeless.bsky.social’s Homeless Data Project highlighted.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It’s almost as if skyrocketing homelessness isn’t caused by addiction or mental illness, but by millions of people being rent-gouged out of a place to live.
A Los Angeles Times headline reads, "Large majority of homeless people in California are not illicit drug users, study finds."
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“We choose how we treat our most vulnerable neighbors. Illinois can build a more just and effective approach to homelessness that addresses systemic failures, or we can choose to criminalize people for surviving them.” @chicagohomeless.bsky.social & @housingactionil.bsky.social
chicagotribune.com
Government officials: Criminalizing homelessness is not a solution
“Camping bans” don’t reduce homelessness. They push people deeper into crisis.
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hey. Follow @chicagohomeless.bsky.social ! bsky.app/profile/chic...
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