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Newsmakers: Interfaith Outreach Sees Rents Account for 58 Percent of Client Budgets  |  November 20, 2022

Kevin Ward, executive of Interfaith Outreach, says the Plymouth nonprofit is seeing clients who are paying as much as 58 percent of their income toward rent. "Then there’s not enough there to pay some of the other living expenses," said Ward. "So we’re seeing families be very resilient and creative by coming to our food shelf, leveraging other services to create a little cushion in their budgets." Ward says the nonprofit, like other nonprofits, is also seeing an increasing number of families visit their… Read More