AIDS & HOMELESSNESS

Nothing about HIV and AIDS is easy, especially for the group it affects the most. According to recent studies, almost nine times more homeless individuals are infected with HIV than any other group. Three out of every four receive incomes below $10,000, placing them below the poverty line. At any given time, there are about 5,400 people with HIV and AIDS in desperate need of housing assistance somewhere in the Chicago Metropolitan area.

It is this very group that Chicago House serves without discrimination: men, women, and children struggling with HIV, and who are also affected by poverty, homelessness, substance abuse, and mental illness. Whatever challenges they face, Chicago House helps them build a better life, first by providing the safe, secure, and affordable housing they need to stabilize their health, then by guiding them towards wholeness and self-sufficiency with prevention and job programs.