SOCIAL - JANUARY 2024 - AN EXPLOSION IN THE USE OF FOOD BANKS IN

The data does not include client visits to other food banks and observing increased crowding are clear signals to policymakers about the effectiveness and so is an undercount of client visits by people living in the City of Toronto. [...] Our The figure shows the number of client visits to the Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto. [...] If a family of three visits the households’ budgets, which necessitated an increase in the number of client food bank twice in the month, it is counted as six client visits in that month. [...] These data are useful to both The steep increase in the number of client visits began in the spring of 2020, where this researchers and policymakers for providing a real-time indicator of growing timing suggests a response associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] Like the proverbial canary in a coal mine, these data on the temporarily plateaued in the fall and winter of 2021/22, but have continued a rapid growth use of food banks provide an early warning sign of a deteriorating social since then, even though the economic dislocations associated with the pandemic have safety net and may be a harbinger of future increases in homelessness.