The most expensive city in the nation grapples with a hunger problem
On the day before Christmas Eve, a line of hungry San Franciscans winds its way to the second floor of the Women's Building on 18th Street. There, in a sunlit room, people take their pick of free food: fresh fruit, chicken, canned goods and pasta. This pantry is one of over 200 in the city supplied by the San Francisco and Marin Food Banks.
Acacia Woods-Chen, the pantry's coordinator, calls off enrollment numbers in broken Cantonese and Spanish as she directs them to the needed sustenance.Read more »
