Marissa Brown, a community advocacy manager at Roadrunner Food Bank, stands over free flower bouquets at a food line Friday in Albuquerque’s International District. (Photo by Patrick Lohmann / Source NM)
The line at a local food bank’s weekly distribution in Albuquerque’s International District has increased in the last few years, organizers say, as neighbors in nearby homes join the queue alongside the growing population of unhoused residents.
Marissa Brown, who runs the Roadrunner Food Bank distribution, says the line has increased by approximately 50 households to 225 each week. She estimated a line once composed mostly of unhoused people pushing carts is now probably 60% people with roofs over their heads…