When Food and Rent Compete (NYT)

thirsty too

so many choices!

but you can't get rent at the food pantry ; they specialize.

rent control doesn't bring you food, only overpriced apartments owing to a housing shortage.

needed : bar subsidies.

Directors of soup kitchens, food pantries and the regional food banks that supply them report that the poor in Connecticut often have to make a routine choice between paying the rent or going hungry