The FY26 budget cuts tens of millions of dollars of funding to housing programs, including the governor’s signature program ...

Facing a tight budget year with constrained spending and limited natural revenue growth, the $55.1 billion fiscal year 2026 ...

No, it isn’t … we know that homelessness is an existential crisis, and the state of Illinois takes this seriously,” Sen. Adriane Johnson, D-Buffalo Grove, who serves on a state homeless ...

Gov. JB Pritzker’s “Home Illinois” initiative aimed at reaching “functional zero” homelessness saw a $26.6 million cut. That program was launched in 2022 and had previously been on a ...

Pritzker’s administration had previously targeted housing programs for substantial increases in recent years. The FY26 budget appropriated $263.7 million for Home Illinois, down from $290.3 ...

With local, state and federal governing bodies doing very little to fund community-based mental health programs and as the cost of housing has skyrocketed, homelessness has not only grown and ...