JANESVILLE
A state agencyâs new probe into homelessness shows that in Rock County, tenants facing eviction are nearly twice as likely to be expelled from their homes by court order than elsewhere in Wisconsin.
Thatâs just one eye-opening slice of data that shows how housing stabilityâand prospects for those who have fallen behind on their rentâarenât necessarily on a level playing field throughout Wisconsin.
On Thursday, Michael Basford, the director of the Wisconsin Department of Administrationâs Interagency Council on Homelessness rolled out new data from a program Gov. Tony Evers launched to track monthly tenant evictions in every Wisconsin county.