{"id":54567,"date":"2023-01-26T16:01:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=54567"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:27:44","slug":"the-future-of-the-mission-food-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/the-future-of-the-mission-food-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mission Food Hub\u2019s Uncertain Future\u00a0<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote\u2019s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community; photos by Benjamin Fanjoy]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesdays, Maria Milagros Hern\u00e1ndez arrives at the Mission Food Hub line before sunrise. She sits at the corner of 19th and Harrison in a foldable chair, hand sanitizer attached to her bag, waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are a lot of organizations,\u201d she says. \u201cBut this is the best.\u201d There\u2019s milk, fresh vegetables, rice, beans, potatoes, celery, garlic. \u201cIt helps a lot.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 9 a.m., the line wraps around three city blocks, and volunteers begin to organize dozens of pallets and crates of food. They weave from the street to the Mission Language and Vocational School (MLVS) warehouse, and back again \u2014 unloading groceries, organizing boxes, answering questions. Upstairs, the Latino Task Force\u2019s resource hubs provide support with immigration, rent relief, emergency funds, and more \u2014 services the coalition began offering to meet the needs expressed by people in line for food. Since COVID, the whole building has become synonymous with support. It\u2019s a community center where you can go to get food, get vaccinated, and get help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the food hub \u2014 or at least part of it \u2014 is set to move, following a contract bid process established and decided by the city. Dolores Street Community Services, the non-profit that has managed the food hub since winning the city\u2019s contract bid for it in August, is \u201ccurrently looking for a new location from which to operate the weekly food distribution program funded by the [Human Services Agency],\u201d the organization informed over email. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What exactly that will mean, though, remains to be seen \u2014 and varies depending on who you ask. For Tracy Gallardo, one of the founders of the Latino Task Force (LTF), \u201cthe Mission Food Hub as the community knows it will end January 31st\u201d and \u201cthe service will not be provided at the Latino Task Force site.\u201d Dolores Street\u2019s executive director, Laura Valdez, says that moving out by next week is unlikely. And Roberto Hern\u00e1ndez, the Mission Food Hub\u2019s founder, guarantees that distribution at the Mission Food Hub\u2019s current site will continue, regardless of Dolores Street\u2019s move. \u201cWe are not abandoning 701. We are going to continue,\u201d he told El Tecolote.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big picture, according to Hern\u00e1ndez, is the city\u2019s repeated failure to feed and protect our communities. And understanding the Mission Food Hub\u2019s future means looking towards its past \u2014 and the fight to get the city to fund the program at all. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Volunteers pack groceries at the Mission Food Hub a day before Thanksgiving, on Nov. 25, 2020. The Food Hub proved essential for community members during the early stages of the pandemic and continues as such. Since then, food distribution has been scaled down as funding has been reduced. Photo: Benjamin Fanjoy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Born out of necessity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When COVID first hit, the Mission Food Hub was established as a community-led response. Like local testing sites, the food program emerged under the umbrella of the Latino Task Force, a now well-known coalition that was created to meet the needs of Latines in the city, who were disproportionately represented in COVID cases and deaths. \u201cI didn\u2019t hear no plan coming from the federal government, the state didn\u2019t have a plan, the city \u2026 Nobody had a plan. And I said we need to start a task force,\u201d Roberto Hern\u00e1ndez said in a documentary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in 2020, he scaled up food distribution from his garage to MLVS\u2019 warehouse at 701 Alabama \u2014 expanding the reach of the community space already nicknamed Mission City Hall. \u201cIt made sense \u2026 for food distribution to be at 701. The space physically was easy to load in, to load out. It was a warehouse space; it was street-level, so it was easy for people to collect food. Everything just fit,\u201d Aleks Zavaleta, MLVS\u2019 executive director, explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later that year, San Francisco began supporting the program with city general funds. But getting any money at all proved much more challenging than it should have been. \u201cIt was a struggle,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez said. \u201c[The city\u2019s Human Services Agency] failed our community from day one during this pandemic \u2026 There was a lot of resistance on their part.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the city did begin funding the food hub, the first contract they awarded provided only $40 worth of groceries per family per week \u2014 much less than what was needed. Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Am\u00e9ricas (CANA) and the LTF supplemented city funding by raising their own money and getting donations \u2014 what the city \u201cshould have been providing,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon, with the infrastructure local leaders created, the Mission Food Hub became an essential resource, serving some 7,000 families every week. It has become a model for culturally competent food insecurity programs, praised even by the agency that was reluctant to fund it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But last year, Hern\u00e1ndez decided it would make more sense for the contract to transfer away from CANA, the cultural arts organization that held it, and to MLVS \u2014 because MLVS owned the 701 Alabama building, they had a kitchen and culinary academy, and they had also been working with the Mission Food Hub since its inception. This was \u201cmade very clear to everybody at the city level,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, the Human Services Agency (HSA) responded, with a request for \u201cproposals from non-profit organizations to distribute groceries to San Franciscans at the Mission Food Hub, located at 701 Alabama Street.\u201d The bid describes the Mission Food Hub as a \u201ctrusted location,\u201d and praises its co-location with \u201ccommunity based organizations with deep community roots [that] provide legal, financial, housing, educational, and health resources to low-income and marginalized San Franciscans.\u201d It seeks an \u201coperator\u201d that can \u201ccontinue the co-location of food distribution with the provision of these other critical services.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MLVS applied to be the operator of the Mission Food Hub on behalf of the Latino Task Force, thinking the bid process was a formality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Dolores Street, another non-profit organization that is also part of the Latino Task Force coalition, applied too \u2014 and they won the contract. \u201cWe were surprised when Dolores Street applied,\u201d the LTF\u2019s Gallardo said. And when they won the bid, even more so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t understand why the moves were made, and the way that they were made,\u201d Zavaleta told El Tecolote<\/em>. So she submitted an appeal for MLVS, and in return received a scoresheet from the HSA grading the organization\u2019s capacity to run the food hub. The rubric was filled out by three \u2018readers\u2019 \u2014 one of whom gave MLVS a six out of ten in the category dedicated to \u201cmanagement\/supervisorial infrastructure and administrative\/financial capacity to deliver the required services.\u201d The form asks: \u201c<\/em>Does the respondent demonstrate the expertise necessary to complete the tasks proposed?<\/em>\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the work we have been doing for almost three years \u2026 How are you going to score an organization low on work that they are actually currently doing?\u201d Zavaleta asked. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Miriam Celino (right) fills a box of groceries at the Mission Food Hub the day before Thanksgiving on Nov. 25, 2020. The Food Hub proved essential for community members during the early stages of the pandemic and continues as such. Since then, food distribution has been scaled down as funding has been reduced. Photo: Benjamin Fanjoy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

For the first half of this fiscal year, from July 1, 2022 to now, the Food Hub remained at 701 Alabama \u2014 and Dolores Street and the LTF agreed to a partnership during those six months. But, Gallardo says, the groups \u201cnever came up with partner agreements \u2026\u201d and it is now \u201cvery clear that [Dolores Street is] a standalone program,\u201d the legislative aide told El Tecolote<\/em>. \u201c[Dolores Street] has chosen not to be at our site.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt would most definitely make more sense [for the food hub] to be operating in the same place [where] it has operated for three years \u2026 because everyone in the community knows that is where the food distribution site is for the Mission,\u201d Gallardo said. The HSA even lists 701 Alabama as the address for the food distribution program in question in its bid. But \u201cno matter where the food ends up,\u201d she added, \u201cthe Mission needs food. Whether it\u2019s Dolores or the Latino Task Force, I\u2019m going to advocate that we have [city] money for food.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, regardless of who holds the contract, city funding for food distribution in the Mission is crucial. But already this fiscal year, the Mission Food Hub has scaled down services due to insufficient resources. It’s continued funding past this June is also not guaranteed. \u201cThe mayor has told us she\u2019s not going to fund the food hub or the resource hubs beyond this fiscal year,\u201d Santiago Lerma, Supervisor Hilary Ronen\u2019s legislative aide, told El Tecolote <\/em>in November. \u201cJune will be here soon. It\u2019s a lot of [people] that they\u2019re feeding that [would] no longer have this resource, so it is a concern for us.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fight for funding<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In San Francisco, the city budget operates on a fiscal calendar, where the start of the year is July 1. Ahead of that date every spring, the Mayor presents a draft budget to the Board of Supervisors, the city\u2019s legislative arm, and by the end of June, there is a proposed plan for spending public money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fiscal year, the budget had a rare surplus \u2014 of $108 million \u2014 and yet, the Mayor and Board of Supervisors made funding for both the Mission Food Hub and the LTF\u2019s testing and vaccination programs difficult to access. In fact, in the initial city budget draft, proposed last spring, both were slated to receive no funding for the \u201922-\u201923 fiscal year, according to Ivan Corado-Vega, the LTF\u2019s former manager. And rather than grant the food hub a full year of funding, the city established a contract ending on January 31, 2023. Only later did they extend funding to last through June\u2014the end of the fiscal year\u2014and the resulting lack of clarity surrounding whether funding would stop abruptly in the new year meant preparing, just in case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also prior to the final budget, Mayor London Breed announced a $9.5 million cut to funding for \u201ctesting, vaccination, COVID care, and other services,\u201d the Chronicle<\/em> reported<\/a>. To put the budget<\/a> in perspective, $1.1 billion went to the entire Human Services Agency, the city department tasked with not only food support but also health care, employment, childcare, and more. While the HSA was not granted a budget increase from last year, the police and sheriff’s departments received a combined budget increase of $80 million this year, for a total of $1.01 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dozens of community leaders gathered outside City Hall on June 13, 2022, to protest the city\u2019s decision to cut, phase out, and underfund a wide range of programs geared towards communities of color, including the Mission Food Hub. Photo: Jeremy Word<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t expect to see cuts to programs [when] we have a budget with a surplus,\u201d Matthias Mormino, co-chair of the Budget Justice Coalition, told El Tecolote <\/em>in September. In response, he and dozens of other community leaders gathered outside City Hall in late June to protest<\/a> the Board\u2019s decision to cut, phase out, and underfund a wide range of programs geared towards communities of color, including the Mission Food Hub. \u201cThere should be no reason why we\u2019re standing here begging<\/em> for money that belongs to us! This budget is ours,\u201d said Eleanor Lefiti, who runs an advocacy group for formerly incarcerated women, to much applause. \u201cWe matter!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result of subsequent negotiation, on June 27, funding was granted for the Mission Food Hub, which is now funded through June 2023, or the end of this fiscal year. But, crucially, total annual funding was reduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By mid-August, the Mission Food Hub stopped serving food on Mondays and stopped doing home deliveries to people with COVID. \u201cResources were greatly cut,\u201d Juan Ulloa, who has been volunteering at the food hub for over two years, lamented. Since there is less food, fewer operational days, and shortened hours on the days the Food Hub is<\/em> still open, he volunteers less now \u2014 and he wishes that weren\u2019t the case. \u201cHopefully next year the city allocates more funding, so that services can [come back], and continue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ivan Corado-Vega, former manager of the Latino Task Force, speaks alongside dozens of community leaders at City Hall on June 13, 2022, protesting the city\u2019s decision to cut, phase out, and underfund a wide range of programs geared towards communities of color, including the Mission Food Hub. Photo: Jeremy Word
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In San Francisco, Latines are disproportionately represented in COVID cases and deaths, the population of people grieving COVID losses, and the population of people with long COVID<\/a>. Here, and across the country, the long-term socioeconomic impacts of COVID\u2019s devastation are also hitting Latinx communities particularly hard. The Abriendo Puertas National Family Study, a survey<\/a> from last fall found that 36 percent of surveyed Latines \u201chave depleted savings to pay for healthcare costs.\u201d 22 percent have lost jobs, 24 percent felt they were \u201cin danger of losing a job because of missed work,\u201d and 33 percent have lost wages because they\u2019ve missed work. \u201cEven though we are in a different phase of the pandemic \u2026 our community continues to be profoundly impacted by economic, food, and housing insecurity,\u201d Lariza Dugan-Cuadra, CARECEN\u2019s Executive Director, told El Tecolote<\/em>. \u201cThe need is still there. There has not been a decrease in need.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Corado-Vega, too, \u201crecovery is going to be a five to ten year process for the Latino community. We were the first ones that were hit; we were hit disproportionately.\u201d To cut funding for food insecurity programs like the Mission Food Hub or the LTF\u2019s testing and vaccination sites would be to dismiss COVID\u2019s socioeconomic impact on Latinx neighborhoods, and the essential workers that sustained the city during quarantine. \u201cWe were the ones cooking the food; if people were getting things delivered, we were the ones that were processing deliveries to trucks \u2014 our Black and brown communities and other communities of color were the ones \u2026 making sure that people had what they needed in a shelter-in-place environment,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planning for the next fiscal year budget \u2014 July 2023 to June 2024 \u2014 is happening now. And keeping community programs like the Mission Food Hub, COVID testing and vaccination sites, and the LTF\u2019s resource hubs funded by the city requires an understanding of the budget, and how to make it work for us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I do the training on the budget, the first thing I tell everybody is [that] the city’s budget is about 14 billion. So don’t let anybody tell you that there isn’t enough money for what you need, and what you’re advocating for,\u201d Mormino says. \u201cReally important decisions get made on a Tuesday night at two in the morning, with 20 people at City Hall. And that’s not okay. We need to make sure that more people understand the city budget, that we make the city budget more transparent to people, and that people understand that members [who] they elect \u2014 whether it’s the mayor or the supervisors \u2014 are making decisions every day about how to spend the money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We may not all be in those meetings, but we are watching. And as we enter a fourth year of COVID, the Mission Food Hub remains as essential as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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