Homelessness on the Rise

A significant increase in the area’s homeless population recently has resulted in more homeless families than there is housing or assistance for them and there’s no end to the shortage in the near future, experts say.
“There are a lot of young families who come here and get very frustrated because there is no housing for them,” said Kelly Wilcock, executive director of the Sauk County Housing Authority. Wilcock’s office operates 40 public housing units for the low-income, elderly and disabled in Sauk County. It also gives out housing vouchers to assist those people, but the waiting list for those vouchers is consistently about 400 people long.

“I don’t know what happens to them” when they leave the office without getting assistance, Wilcock said. “I just don’t know.

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