What Budget Crisis?

Conehead (and Fata$$) keep claiming there is no money, even as they continue to raise taxes and blame Washington DC for their spending problems.

Then Conehead announces this late last week:

• Chicago officials unveiled a plan they say would effectively end homelessness in the city, even as questions over leadership changes and unclear funding streams cast early uncertainty over how the plan will be implemented. 

  The five-year blueprint features data, recommendations and insight into how the city might address the issue of homelessness. It contains seven pillars to address – emergency services, housing, health, education, employment, community cohesion and systems alignment.

  Improvements to homelessness services have already been in progress according to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, but the blueprint will provide guidance for initiatives. The report says it aims to effectively end homelessness, based on a framework called Functional Zero.

  Sendy Soto, Chicago chief homelessness officer, was appointed to the position by the mayor in 2023 to lead efforts creating the five-year plan. Her departure from the position was announced by Johnson early this week.

So the person nominally "in charge" of this effort just left. 

And TheCenterSquare points out there is no actual funding stream to fund the entire plan.

For a city....

• that can't maintain 60% of its CFD Tower Ladders, 
• is seven years into a "consent decree" can't adequately man Districts or supervisory positions, 
• burned through $400 million for ILLEGAL ALIENS, 
• and won't fix potholes that exploded across the city following the usual freeze/thaw cycle of March

.... is going to end homelessness. This Functional Zero would seem to describe Conehead's entire administrative staffs' brainpower.

Color us skeptical.