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La Puente reports sharp rise in demand; crisis-prevention funding credited with keeping households housed
Summary
La Puente Food Bank told the Alamosa City Council its Alamosa location served roughly 2,512 unduplicated households in 2024 and opened a new site; its crisis-prevention arm said city prevention funding stabilized dozens of households but demand is outpacing available funds.
Wilson Hamilton, development director for La Puente Food Bank, told the Alamosa City Council on April 25 that the agency’s Alamosa pantry served “2,512 unduplicated households, comprising about 6,000 unduplicated people” in 2024 and distributed roughly 30,000 food boxes.
The numbers came during a joint presentation to council about the food bank’s work and the organization’s crisis-prevention services. “That is a sharp increase from 2022,” Hamilton said, adding that the Alamosa location now serves nearly half of the valley-wide network’s clients.
The nut of the presentation was twofold: the food bank is seeing rapidly rising need, and crisis-prevention funds the city provides are producing measurable housing stability. “We used the…
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