RECENT MIGRANT CRISIS SHONE A LIGHT ON A PROBLEM THAT ALREADY EXISTED IN CHICAGO.

HOMELESSNESS.

SEVERAL FACTORS CAN LEAD TO NOT HAVING A HOME, BUT FOR SOME IT HAPPENS AFTER AN EVICTION.

A NEW EXHIBIT WORKS TO EXPLAIN THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EVICTION HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY WITH HELP FROM THOSE WHO KNOW HIM BEST.

IT'S BASED ON THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNING BOOK EVICTED BY PRINCETON, SOCIOLOGIST MATTHEW DESMOND, AS PART OF WT W'S ONGOING INITIATIVE FIRSTHAND HOMELESS BRANDIS FREEMAN TAKES US ON A TOUR.

>> MY NAME IS ROSEMARY AND I WAS 14 WHEN I WAS A >> IT'S THIS VIDEO THAT JAMES LEE WILLIAMS SAYS HE FINDS ESPECIALLY MOVING >> IT'S TOUCHING IS ABOUT A PERSON REALLY POINT HARD SHE LOST.

>> EVERYTHING THE VIDEO, PLEASE AS PART OF AN EXHIBIT CALLED EVICTED BASED ON THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNING BOOK BY PROFESSOR MATTHEW WILLIAMS CAN RELATE BECAUSE HE'S EXPERIENCED IT TOO.

>> LOST EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW, DUE TO THE FACT OUR BRAND OVER BY A CAR.

AND IT JUST WENT DOWNHILL POSITION WITH JOB THAT I HAD DESTRUCTION SAID I CAN NO LONGER WORK THERE BECAUSE I GOT SMOOTH THEM OUT MONEY RAN OUT.

YOU KNOW THAT I WOULD GET NO CHECKED.

YEAH, I WAS ADDICTED.

>> WILLIAMS SAYS HE'S STILL HOMELESS COUCH SURFING WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHILE MAINTAINING A PICTURE.

PERFECT EXTERIOR.

>> YOU KNOW, I JUST PLAYED A ROLE WITH PEOPLE LIKE, YOU KNOW, I STILL STAY HERE AND IT'S HOUSE RIGHT HERE.

YOU SAND LIKE THAT AND ALL I DON'T STAY THERE IN THAT HOUSE.

ALL ALONE.

STAY HERE.

YOU DON'T SAY.

AND SOMETIME I SLEEP IN MY SUNDAY'S THERE.

AND SOME TIME I GO TO THE HOTEL.

>> THE ROLE WILLIAMS PLACE HERE AT THE NATIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING MUSEUM IS EDUCATOR HELPING VISITORS BETTER UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF EVICTION AND THOSE WHO EXPERIENCE IT.

>> I DIDN'T PAY RENT FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND THEN THEY THEY CAME GOT THIS GOT TO GO.

MOST MY STUFF GOT DESTROYED.

YOU KNOW, I'M SAYING GOT MOST OF MY THAT I START PUTTING ALL MY STUFF.

AND STUART, I STILL GOT STUART'S STUFF IN MY STORIES NOW.

I GOT STUFF IN MY MIND THAT I GOT STUFF FROM IT.

HOW AUGUSTA FORMICA THE HOUSE.

I GOT STUFF.

IT FRIEND'S HOUSE.

YOU KNOW STUFF IS EVERYWHERE.

>> PART OF THE EXHIBIT INCLUDES THIS SCULPTURAL CONTAINING THE ITEMS THAT MAKE A HOMES AND TOSSED ONTO THE STREET WHERE SO SUDDENLY ALL OF THEIR MOST PRECIOUS FAMILY OBJECTS ARE SORT OF RIPPED OUT OF THEIR HOME, BOUND UP.

>> AND THEN IN THE UNITED STATES, WHAT HAPPENED SAYS THERE'S OFTEN PREDATORY MOVING COMPANIES THAT COM TAKE THE OBJECTS AND PUT THEM INTO A STORAGE FACILITY.

AND THEN UNLESS THE FAMILY HAS ENOUGH MONEY, THEY'LL NEVER GET THEIR OBJECTS A AND SO ALL THROUGHOUT THE NATION, THERE ARE THESE WAREHOUSES JUST FILLED WITH PEOPLE'S MOST PRECIOUS OBJECTS.

>> THE EXHIBIT RELIES ON EDUCATORS LIKE WILLIAMS FROM WHO IS ALSO HOMELESS.

BUT IT ALSO USES NUMBERS.

THE GOAL IS TO ELIMINATE THE HARSH REALITY OF EVICTIONS FOR LOW-INCOME RENTERS.

IN CHICAGO ALONE.

LAST YEAR WE HAD, YOU KNOW, OVER 24,000 SORT OF EVICTIONS.

AND WE'RE UP THERE AS THE CITY RESEARCH SHOWS THAT IN THE U.S. 7.6 MILLION PEOPLE WERE THREATENED WITH EVICTION EACH YEAR.

>> BETWEEN 2007 2016, NEARLY 3 MILLION OF THEM WERE CHILDREN.

SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK, OH, PEOPLE WHO ARE EVICTED.

>> DON'T HAVE JOBS.

BUT ACTUALLY WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING WITH US WHO ARE HUSTLING AND THEY ACTUALLY HAVE 3 JOBS.

BUT BECAUSE OF THE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY CRISIS STILL FOR TO ACTUALLY LIVE SOMEWHERE.

>> DARAA SAYS HE WORKS BUT ISN'T PAID ENOUGH TO A FORD RENT.

SOMETIMES HE STAYS WITH FRIENDS, BUT MOSTLY HE SLEEPS OUTSIDE.

>> FIRST, I WAS JUST.

STAYING BY THE TRAIN, MOSTLY.

I'M NOT THE SAFEST PLACE OF BEEN ROBBED TWICE >> ASSAULTED >> HE SAYS HE'S NEVER BEEN EVICTED BUT KNOWS THE PAIN ELECTRIC PEOPLE TOO.

>> AND EYES PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR HOMES BEING EVICTED SUCH BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR HOME.

YOU LOST YOUR PRIVATE SPACE USE.

YOU WERE.

SPACE WHERE YOU CAN BE SAFE WHERE YOU CAN BE YOURSELF.

IT'S HARD TO FIND ANOTHER PLACE LIKE THAT.

>> JAMES LEE WILLIAMS SAYS IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE HIM CONSIDER HIS OLD WAYS.

YEARS AGO HE WAS SENT TO PRISON FOR BANK ROBBERY.

BUT TODAY HE HAS A GOOD REASON TO STAY HOPEFUL FOR A BETTER FUTURE.

MY DAUGHTER KEEPS ME OUT OF PRISON.

>> BECAUSE I WANTED TO HAVE THE BEST.

YOU KNOW, THEY'RE MY DAUGHTER KEEPS ME OUT OF PRISON.

>> FOR CHICAGO TONIGHT, LATINO VOICES.

I'M BRANDIS FRIEDMAN.

WHAT A POWERFUL EXHIBIT A THAT IS.

WILLIAMS AND OTHER EDUCATORS FOR THE EXHIBIT.

OUR PARTICIPANTS WITH THE RED LINE SERVICE.

>> AN ORGANIZATION THAT PROVIDES SUPPORT FOR ARTIST WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN HOMELESS.

THE VICTIM EXHIBIT RUNS THROUGH MARCH 10TH AT THE