Soaring real estate prices forced a Nashville food pantry to shutter its doors, offering what experts warn is a preview of what’s to come as more charities struggle with financial pressures.
food pantries and hunger programs scattered across the country. Ranging in size, some are affiliated with regional food banks, while other independent nonprofits like Downey’s purchase their food from both retailers and food banks.All of them have had to give out more food. In 2019, the U.S. food insecurity rate was at a. According to the Department of Agriculture, by the next year 6.7 percent of U.S.
One possible cause, according to the report, was the 2017 tax reform law, which hiked the minimum deduction level for charitable contributions, resulting in 21 million fewer households using the deduction. Many nonprofits survived the first pandemic year through Paycheck Protection Program loans. But
The vast majority of outreach revolved around finding affordable housing. As demand for housing everywhere has soared, Nashville was seeing properties selling faster than any other city, according to themarket, and there was an overstuffed envelop in Downey’s desk of all the public notices mailed to the pantry about zoning changes for nearby lots where new construction was planned.
“A backpack would be cool,” he said. “I know it kind of looks like I’m in a bad spot but at the same time I’m kind of not, if that makes any sense.”Before finding the Little Pantry, Don Casey got most of his meals from dumpsters. “Still hit the dumpster once in a while for old time’s sake,” he said. “What we are going to do today is going to be very different from most places where people go for food,” she explained. To access emergency food, most providers required identification like a driver’s license or birth certificate, or proof of residences, signed lease or mortgage paper. Not here, she said. “It’s not going to tell me you are raising your grandkids, or that you just lost your job.”
Beyond the doorway, more than a hundred shoppers were waiting in the main room, drinking coffee, chatting, laughing over the 70s soul music blasting from the speakers.She paused. For a moment Downey seemed unable to find her voice. “Your whole job, all you have to do today, is treat people great. That’s it. Oh, yeah, and there’s food.”
Whatever Allen picked up that day would end up lasting barely two weeks. By then, after calculating how much of his monthly disability check could go toward groceries, he would decide to eat less.
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