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    To Reduce Chronic Homelessness, A Chicago Hospital Is Treating It As A Medical Condition

    The University of Illinois Hospital has started providing permanent housing for homeless patients that repeatedly show up in emergency rooms.
    Feb 21, 2019 5 minutes
    A homeless man who did not give his name bundles up in blankets in downtown Chicago during a deep freeze. (Kiichiro Sato/AP)

    This story is part of a series looking at places around the U.S. that are successfully reducing homelessness. Check out all of our stories.

    The University of Illinois Hospital is one of a few hospitals in the Chicago area that have started providing permanent housing for homeless patients that repeatedly show up in emergency rooms.

    The program, called Better Health Through Housing, in partnership with the Center for Housing and Health, treats chronic homelessness as a health issue. Finding people permanent supportive housing also reduces health care costs, says Stephen Brown, director of preventive emergency medicine at the University of Illinois Hospital.

    “So if someone is living unsheltered under a bridge, and they have no other options because they might have been kicked out of crisis shelters, they’re going to come to our emergency department and seek

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