Chicago groups scramble to find housing for newly arrived immigrants 6 months after busing began

Kristin Huzar, of Evanston, looks through a kitchen full of food for her family, who is hosting four immigrants that arrived in Chicago with no place to go. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

When a Venezuelan family arrived in Chicago in December after a three-month journey from South America, they found a city with little shelter space.

While Kevin had arrived earlier and found a shelter bed before his partner, Legna, and their two children crossed the border into Texas, it was far more difficult to secure a home for the entire family. They ended up spending days sleeping in waiting rooms, the hallway of a shelter and on the floor of a Chicago police station.