By: Diane Benjamin
https://www.nhipdata.org/local/upload/file/2024-HIC-Counts-by-State%20-%20Housing%20Efficiency.pdf
The National Homeless Project Issued this document in 2025. Bloomington/Central Il is listed on PDF page 3:
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Same report from 2019: https://www.nhipdata.org/local/upload/file/Success%20Formula%20-%20by%20CoC%202019.pdf
PDF page 7:
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These reports show homelessness is down from 2019 and the number who have found permanent housing is much higher now.
These pictures are from Normal: (h/t a reader)
The reader estimated somewhere between 45 and 60 people who were relocated to Adelaide St:
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The Bloomington Council gave the City Manager emergency powers for housing the homeless. If Normal is doing anything about their homeless, I don’t know since I quit following them at least a year ago.
Am I reading the chart correctly? Does it say that Blono has almost as many homeless as the entire state of Wyoming?
Since Wyoming doesn’t have many people that’s possible
Looks like they did a great job finding housing too
I seem to recall homeless people being kicked out of the Salvation Army a few years ago because the facility “wasn’t designed for sleeping.” As an Army veteran, I can tell lots of stories about places I slept that weren’t “designed” for sleeping! All these people want is something to get them out of the weather, whether it’s under a bridge or in a shed. If they could pitch a tent this winter in one of the many greenhouses the city now owns, they would be thrilled but somehow the only option always requires $$$ millions to implement.
Salvation Army housed people last year under emergency rules. Happening again this year