At a busy bar near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Friday night, someone suddenly shouted: “Who’s homeless tonight?”
The assembled students erupted in cheers.
The city’s streets held the evidence: Students crashing on couches, sleeping in moving trucks and guarding piles of furniture. Dylan Loss, a 20-year-old junior, pitched a tent in his friend’s yard. Kristin Paul, of White Bear Lake, squatted in the cabin of her sailing club’s boat on Lake Mendota.