Chicago Furniture Bank provides the assets that are essential for the newly housed
But there was a catch on move-in day: The place had no furniture. For months, Evans slept on the floor.
For years, that sort of slow, awkward transition plagued Chicago-area rehousing efforts. But in 2018, the city received a jolt of support from an unlikely source: a pair of graduates from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Griffin Amdur and Andrew Witherspoon won a social-enterprise business plan competition at the school for their vision to create a furniture bank in Chica