The Five-Year Plan on Homelessness
In 2024, the Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed Chicago's first Chief Homelessness Officer to lead a bold, citywide response to homelessness. Under her leadership, Chicago is actively expanding housing options and enhancing services for people experiencing homelessness, guided by a comprehensive, citywide vision to end homelessness in Chicago.
Families and individuals know where to go for help to PREVENT homelessness and can ACCESS what they need that makes homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring (no matter where an individual touches the system, they get help).
Families and individuals historically underserved have pathways to BUILD generational wealth. And together, Chicagoans EMBRACE sustainable, equitable solutions that ensure every resident has access to safe and stable housing.
This is our commitment. This is OUR Chicago.
Chief Homeless Officer Sendy Soto brings over two decades of experience addressing issues related to homelessness, housing, and community safety. The office works in alignment with city, state, and federal partners to create a five-year plan that centers on the dignity and humanity of Chicago's unhoused residents.
The Five-Year Plan will be integrated across city initiatives to ensure it has the full force of government supporting it. To realize this vision, the plan will confront the historical impact on underserved communities on wealth inequality. It will prioritize ways to prevent and end homelessness will prioritize pathways to housing for those who have been routinely shut out of housing opportunities. The plan will align with Chicago’s Co-Governance framework by centering people most impacted by homelessness in both policy development and implementation. Finally, it will invest in a comprehensive housing continuum that includes affordable, permanent housing located near transit and essential services.
Chicago’s Five-Year Plan on Homelessness
On behalf of Mayor Brandon Johnson, the Mayor’s Office of Homelessness, led by Chief Homelessness Officer Sendy Soto, is spearheading Chicago’s Five-Year Plan on Homelessness. This work brings together a 30-person Strategic Advisory Committee, a diverse team of Chicago-area consultants, a Public Sector Roundtable comprised of city, county, state, and federal leaders, and a partnership with the Chicago Homeless Interagency Collaborative (CHI Collab)—all working in concert to develop a comprehensive, coordinated approach to preventing and ending homelessness in Chicago. We are conducting citywide engagement to ensure the voices of people with lived experience and the broader community guide the Administration’s commitment to a co-governance approach. With a focus on racial equity and public health, our goal is to raise awareness, gather meaningful input, and develop strategies so that people experiencing rough sleeping can access stable housing across the city of Chicago.
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