According to San Francisco-Marin Food Bank's latest COVID-19 Hunger Report, 60,000 households (up from 32,000) depend on the organization for their food every week. The food bank has also increased its weekly meal distribution from 855,000 to 1.3 million. (Photo courtesy of San Francisco-Marin Food Bank)

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many societal problems that already existed to the forefront, and hunger in the Bay Area is one of those issues that has significantly increased in the past few months.

The San Francisco-Marin (SFM) Food Bank has seen the number of households they distribute food to double since before the pandemic. Specifically, 32,000 households relied on the SFM Food Bank every week before the pandemic, and now 60,000 households every week depend on them, according to the COVID-19 Hunger Report that was released by food bank this month. Additionally, before the pandemic, SFM distributed 855,000 meals per week, now they give out 1.3 million meals per week.

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