Daily Herald Editorial Board, Sep. 2, 2021: Homelessness in the suburbs is a complex problem that demands creative solutions. One group in DuPage County has an innovative idea that is worth serious study. DuPagePads wants to buy a Red Roof Inn in Downers Grove and transform the building into an interim housing center for people
Over the past 18 months of the pandemic, advocates for the homeless in DuPage County have been able to house more than 430 people in hotels. That count includes 130 children who would otherwise be sleeping night to night in congregate, rotating shelter sites that were forced to close when the COVID-19 crisis struck.
DuPage PADS is hoping to repurpose a hotel at 1113 Butterfield Rd. to give homeless residents access to interim shelter. DOWNERS GROVE, IL — A Downers Grove hotel that became a temporary housing solution for DuPage PADS during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic may soon offer homeless residents shelter there on a more
Over the past 18 months of the pandemic, advocates for the homeless in DuPage County have been able to house more than 430 people in hotels. That count includes 130 children who would otherwise be sleeping night to night in congregate, rotating shelter sites that were forced to close when the COVID-19 crisis struck.
