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10-year plan

City's plan to end homelessness by 2012 threatened by subprime meltdown

Filed by Elizabeth Riley on May 08, 2008 01:49 AM

Homelessness has many faces. On Chicago streets, it may look like the frail woman at the corner of Jackson Boulevard and Wells Street or the aged veteran singing Otis Redding at the Chicago and State el stop. But with the nation in the middle of a mortgage crisis, that face could change.

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Tags: Housing, housing market, Homelessness, economy, foreclosure, home, subprime mortgage market, housing first, The Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness, 10-year plan,

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