Migrants face housing crisis: How Chicago's eviction process leaves families in limbo

In Chicago, migrants deal with the daunting task of securing housing amid the challenges of unemployment, scarce resources and looming homelessness.

CHICAGO — Maria Cinfuentes stood outside Chicago’s largest migrant shelter on a windy morning last week, rubbing her cold hands together and worrying about her future.

She learned last week that her stay at the shelter, the only home she’s known since arriving in the U.S. from Venezuela in December, will come to an end next month. But she has no idea where she’ll go next.

“I don’t have a job. My husband doesn’t have a job,” the 30-year-old mother of three told NBC News in Spanish. “I don’t know anyone here. How am I going to pay rent?”

More than 13,000 migrants like Cinfuentes are under pressure to find homes and work before they are mass-evicted from city-operated shelters to conserve the budget and make room for newcomers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/migrants-housing-crisis-chicago-eviction-process-rcna135688

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