03/24/2022
Press Release
For Immediately Release through March 25, 2022
Subject: Virtual Press Conference on “Food Insecurity and the Unhoused in Sacramento,” Friday, March 25 at 10:00am.
Please RSVP and get zoom link: Faye Wilson Kennedy at: [email protected]
Sacramento--For over 3 weeks unhoused residents of multiple motels operated by the City of Sacramento have been reaching out to local organizations and local activists to say that food services have stopped.
We have confirmed this and have been told that funding had run out. Most of the people in the motels are high risk, seniors, and disabled. When we reached out to the City of Sacramento, we were told they were given resources: a list of local food banks. This is inaccessible to the unhoused. Food Insecurity is dangerous. There has been positive movement around food security in City Hall, but this is a critical issue for those in the City operated motels.
The Sacramento Homeless and the Sacramento Poor People’s campaign will host a press conference on Friday, March 25 at 10am to discuss Food insecurity in Sacramento and its impact on the unhoused and low-income community members.
It's estimated that in 2020 food insecurity affected 43% (174,000) of adults and 42% (63,000) of children in low-income households within Sacramento County, according to Nourish California, a nonprofit food policy advocacy organization
For additional info regarding Food Insecurity in Sacramento please read the following:
Speakers: Crystal Sanchez at [email protected]/ 916 495-9026 and
Faye Wilson Kennedy, [email protected]/ 916 812-7429
The Sacramento Homeless Union is an organization of homeless leaders committed to ending the oppression of all Homeless, Poor and Dispossessed People. Join us to win justice for all homeless, poor, and dispossessed people.
The Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign region is a member of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. We are building a movement to overcome systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, and the war economy. Everybody's got a right to live. .
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A new CapRadio/Valley Vision poll suggests one out of four residents are using food aid, but only 12% rely on food pantries. Look up a pantry near you in Sacramento.
