Executive Summary

The Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County leads the coordinated response to prevent and end homelessness across all 130 Cook County suburbs located outside the city of Chicago. Our homelessness response system aims to prevent homelessness whenever possible, provide emergency shelter for those in crisis with nowhere to go, and to quickly connect people with the housing and services they need to thrive. Last year, 12,822 people received housing and stability services from the homelessness response system led by the Alliance.

Our approach is informed by regularly convening people with lived experience of homelessness, nonprofits providing direct services, affordable housing developers, local and state government, philanthropic partners, and cross-sector collaboration with health care, education, and other systems that interact with individuals facing housing instability.

The Alliance provides the foundation for our homeless response system through community-wide planning and strategic coordination of government resources; managing a secure, client-level database that allows for better service coordination and informs data-driven decision-making; and removing barriers to housing by connecting individuals with housing interventions based on their needs and preferences and amplifying the voices of people with lived experience and direct service providers to advocate for the resources and policy changes needed to remove systemic barriers to affordable housing.

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