By James Salazar : sfexaminer – excerpt (includes audio track)
A critical lifeline for over 18,000 San Francisco households will soon come to an end.
Earlier this month, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank announced it would shutter roughly 20 pandemic-era pop-up pantries throughout the region by 2025 and roll back enrollment in its grocery delivery program, utilized by some 13,000 households.
The pop-ups, which opened in March 2020 in response to the pandemic, have become an essential service in a city where food insecurity impacts one in four San Franciscans…(more)