With the COVID-19 assistance ending in 2025, rights advocates worry of an increase in homelessness in Dane County.
Written by: Legal Action of Wisconsin
By Keifa Jaward as published by the Madison Commons
Throughout Heidi Wegleitner’s 18 years as an attorney, helping people facing eviction has been a significant part of her legal practice.
It’s a cause she adores, especially because she knows that every eviction case she wins means preventing a household from sleeping out in the freezing Midwest cold.
“There are lots of secondary traumas that I experience because sometimes I’m representing people who don’t have much other support in their lives,” Wegleitner said.
Even with those wins, the impacts could be minimal because of the overwhelming number of eviction cases that she and her colleagues at Legal Action of Wisconsin cannot handle.
