Officials in Chicago hope to ease an affordable-housing crunch for its HIV-positive residents with a new five-year plan that calls for the rollout of 800 more AIDS housing units between now and 2012. The plan, called A Place to Call Home, also addresses the need for support services for HIV-positive residents of AIDS housing communities and calls on local agencies to collaborate on addressing the housing shortage. There are about 1,300 AIDS housing units in the Chicago area, but officials from the AIDS Foundation of Chicago say those meet only about 10% of the community's need.
