More Chicago Homelessness, Overcrowding

CBS TV Chicago reports:

Chicago is gaining low-income households, including many large Latino households, much faster than it is gaining housing they can afford, a University of Illinois at Chicago report says.

If current trends continue through 2010, the city will see a marked increase in overcrowding, homelessness, and households burdened by rents they cannot afford, said Yittayih Zelalem, research assistant professor and co-director of UIC's Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement.

Gentrification? No word yet on white families moving back to Chicago.