MADISON, Wis. -- Jaytona Lockhart is living on the streets of Madison.

"I'm not gonna be homeless too long, you know what I'm saying? It's just for a season," he said. "I work myself into getting some resources to help me find some housing."

Lockhart and others facing housing insecurity watch as the Dairy Drive tiny homes and the Veteran's Museum homeless encampment are shut down and the permanent men's shelter on the city's east side is built, all changing the landscape of homelessness in the community and highlighting a growing problem.

"We have teams of providers that go out and count people who are staying in places not meant for human habitation," said Homeless Services Consortium of Dane County's Care Coordinator Torrie Kopp Mueller.

The consortium does an annual point-in-time co

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