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The Sun-Times reports that Chicago's homeless population is ballooning beyond the city's ability to provide resources. And some advocates predict a "crisis" is imminent. More women and children are homeless than in the past, says Brady Harden hard·en  
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 that helps manage 18 shelters. Of the 1,428 adults who sought help at Harden's shelters between July and September, about 25 percent were single mothers, he says. The Sun-Times reports the CHA n. 1. Tea; - the Chinese (Mandarin) name, used generally in early works of travel, and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia.
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 and the federal Section 8 voucher A receipt or release which provides evidence of payment or other discharge of a debt, often for purposes of reimbursement, or attests to the accuracy of the accounts.  program were options for the homeless in the past, but more than 33,000 families are on the CHA waiting list and nearly 22,000 on the Section 8 waiting list.
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Title Annotation:Chicago homeless statistics
Author:Mister, Chloe
Publication:The Chicago Reporter
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U3IL
Date:Jan 1, 2002
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