In Hopkins and Minnetonka, Minnesota, a nonprofit serving both communities is seeing an unprecedented level of need in the wake of Operation Metro Surge.
Matt Dymoke, Director of Development and Communications, ICA Food Shelf, said that the organization has had to find ways to provide about $150,000 in rent assistance in the past six weeks, which is 10 times the amount it would normally provide in a given month.
“We know that that’s not going to stop anytime soon,” Dymoke said. “The impacts of Operation Metro Surge are going to be there for months to come.”…