Nearly 14,000 people living in Wisconsin have every reason to worry they will be evicted over the next two months.
Members of Congress have left Washington for the six-week August recess without extending the federal freeze on evictions.
Nationwide, 3.6 million Americans are at risk.
Madison-based Feeding the Youth reports it has seen requests for rental help more than triple in the last week.
C-E-O Jazzman Brown says her organization normally gets five-to-ten requests each month.
Most of the 48 requests for help received recently came in during the last week of July.