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To better reflect all forms of homelessness one might experience, researchers at Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH), Vanderbilt University, and the Heartland Alliance Social IMPACT Research Center developed a model to better estimate the total scope of people experiencing homelessness, incorporating people experiencing homelessness by temporarily staying with others.Įarlier this year, the Housing Policy Debate published CCH research on quantifying doubled-up homelessness, adding credibility to the years-long Homelessness Data Project research on measures of homelessness.Īn estimated 65,611 people were experiencing homelessness in Chicago in 2020. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s methods for enumerating homelessness exclude doubled-up arrangements, and Department of Education counts of doubling-up include only school children. Homeless services are equipped to provide shelter and transitional housing to only a fraction of those experiencing homelessness, so temporarily staying with others is a means of survival.

Temporarily staying with others (or “doubling up”) is the way that most people-particularly families with children-experience homelessness in Illinois. Many definitions of homelessness include people temporarily staying with others-doubling-up because of economic hardship or housing loss. Census American Community Survey, exposing an often-hidden crisis in Illinois homelessness: temporarily staying with others, or “doubling up.” Information is updated as additional details are received.An estimated 109,842 people were experiencing homelessness in Illinois in 2020, per an analysis by CCH using data from the U.S. All data are provisional and subject to change.

Only polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based tests, and Antigen tests are included, and only one test is counted for each individual. Only Illinois residents are included based on the home address as provided by the medical provider. COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Age Demographics by County This dataset contains counts of people tested for COVID-19 in Illinois and their results.ĭata in this section are limited to data collected beginning Mathrough the date of the last update.