Across the city, hundreds of storage options are available for homeless young people, who stow clothes, medication and books for school, or keepsakes and legal documents. These lockers, and the phone-charging lockers at The Crib, were funded by the Chicago Youth Storage Initiative, which began in 2015. At that time, according to the group, fewer than 40 storage units were available at programs for homeless youths in Chicago, and it estimated about 12,200 young people did not have a place to sleep on a nightly basis.