Press Room

After securing millions in funding, a historic designation, and its share of delays, the conversion of the old Fifth Avenue Motel into housing for the homeless is finally underway.

Where we once built “housing of last resort” we are now building such iconic sustainable structures as architect Helmut Jahn’s Near North, a “new urbanism” prototype built for an unusual purpose - housing the homeless in Chicago.

Clare Housing is at a crossroads. It provides housing and support services to people with HIV/AIDS. During the past decade this part of the nonprofit world has seen a fair amount of consolidation. Clare has several options as it contemplates its next big move.

Mayor Richard M. Daley today praised the efforts of Chicago’s philanthropic community in helping speed delivery of services funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to Chicago’s neighborhoods and residents and provided an update on projects that are already underway.

New York State discriminated against thousands of mentally ill people in New York City by leaving them in privately run adult homes, which effectively replaced state-run psychiatric hospitals more than a generation ago but turned out to be little more than institutions themselves, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

In what aides describe as proactive steps to prevent homelessness and hunger in New Jersey, Gov. Jon Corzine Tuesday signed legislation in a ceremony at Cathedral Kitchen in Camden.

Carrfour Supportive Housing's new building in Little Havana is taking some of the homeless off the streets and helping low-income families.

Daniel's Village, which provides supportive housing for young adults with early signs of mental illness, will hold its grand opening Sept. 11 in Santa Monica. The facility is in a former motel at 2624 Santa Monica Blvd. on what was once Route 66. It will house seven young adults experiencing the initial symptoms of severe and persistent mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression.

Just after dawn on Tuesday, the New Orleans Homeless-Assistance Collaborative led an effort to scatter a new homeless colony by connecting them directly to social service agencies.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the grand opening of the Alexandria House Apartments Project, 16 low-income units in Koreatown. Seven of those units are reserved for homeless or those at risk of being homeless and victims of domestic violence.