After a two-month stay on evictions in the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic, filings for evictions are on the rise, according to a Wisconsin State Journalreport.
Legal Action, an advocacy group working on behalf of tenants, reports seeing a sharp rise in activity now that the stay has been lifted. State courts are also reporting a sharp rise in eviction filings.
Legal Action estimates that because of the failure of the Department of Workforce Development to get unemployment checks to hundreds of thousands of laid-off workers, there could be nearly 40,000 households behind on rent in June.
