LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Louisville nonprofit that provides healthy food to hundreds of families every week had to find a new place to go when its rent was doubled.
Change Today, Change Tomorrow (CTCT), which Taylor Ryan started in 2019 to give back to underserved communities in west Louisville, had its $3,500 per month rent increased to $8,000. She was given five days notice.
“It was a shock but also comical,” Ryan said. “It’s so funny, like, I cannot pay this.”
Taylor Ryan, founder of Change Today, Change Tomorrow.
West Louisville residents are disproportionately affected by a lack of access to fresh and healthy food options, Ryan recently wrote in a Change.org petition.
“With 1 in 3 West End residents living in a food desert, families are forced to rely on convenience stores and fast-food restaurants that offer unhealthy and processed food options,” she said.
Yejide Travis, a benefactor of CTCT’s services who’s turned into a volunteer, is the …