With winter arriving, Wisconsin cities hone in on homeless
“He said much of the funding has come from federal pandemic recovery aid and is often being used to provide hotel rooms and other temporary housing.
Volk said there are more people experiencing homelessness this fall than prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, including families with children, Wisconsin Public Radio reported.
‘We’ve been through an unimaginable year and a half of social and economic disruption,” Volk said. “Certainly things would probably be a lot worse if the federal government hadn’t stepped in, in terms of enhanced unemployment and an eviction moratorium and things of that sort. But that being said, there’s a lot of people whose lives were pushed off the rails and a certain number of those folks are going to fall through the cracks and become homeless.'”