Saint Sabina holds event to provide housing for the unhoused
CHICAGO — A new effort is underway to provide the unhoused with immediate homes on the city’s South Side.
People arrived to Saint Sabina Church homeless on Thursday, and left with a place to call home.
Father Michael Pfleger hosted multiple groups who are looking to end the homeless issue in the city.
“We must call everything homelessness. Not migrant. Not Chicago. Homeless. We have a homeless issue in America,” Pfleger said.
Whether they are a migrant or Chicagoan who is facing homelessness, people signed up for housing inside Saint Sabina. They came from two separate shelters, one of them in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, the other from another part of Chicago.
Pfleger said Saint Sabina also funded for five bus loads of people to get picked up from other shelters, and bring them to the church to receive resources to get through homelessness.
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This is All Chicago’s 127th accelerated moving event. The organization created over 2,000 households for the homeless since 2020.
People who signed up for housing Thursday even received furniture packages. The housing is located in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
Supporters also held a resource fair for those hit by homelessness. Pfleger said he’s hoping he can hold one of these events at his church again in the near future.
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