School Shelter

Homeless in the halls:

CTU is demanding the board identify schools with vacant and unused floors to be converted into dormitories for unaccompanied youth and to provide access to school building shower and laundry facilities for students and families in temporary living situations. The union is also demanding the board identify functioning schools with separate entrances to be used as temporary sheltering places for homeless CPS families. The union wants these “schools-turned-sheltering places” to have a night-time custodial team of at least two plus social service staff. CTU put $400,000 behind Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s failed real estate tax hike and subjected itself to an ethics complaint for lobbying students and pulling them from class to vote. CTU was looking for a payoff from their involvement in the “Bring Chicago Home” campaign, with plans to use tax revenue generated for affordable housing.

It's not like they're being used otherwise...