Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the city will start its transition this week to merge its two shelter systems, known as the One System Initiative.

Chicago’s migrant shelters will be shut down at the end of the year and absorbed into an existing system for homeless residents, Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a Monday announcement praising his administration for getting past an earlier humanitarian crisis while brushing off concerns of shrinking bed capacity that could lead to more people on the street.

After two years and half a billion dollars spent, the city of Chicago's migrant shelter system will close as we know it.