LIBERTY — All week, Marty Colavito and his wife Lynn deliver food and groceries to people in need across Sullivan County in the Catskills. They have been doing it since the pandemic started, and now they serve around 600 people regularly.

But lately, all along Colavito’s route, people are just disappearing. They’re getting evicted, or they’re leaving because they can’t afford to stay. Driving around near Liberty recently, Colavito pulled up to an apartment complex and pointed at the mostly empty building.

“When I first started delivering here, I was delivering to 10, 12 people,” he said. “They’re all gone, except for one person here. There are still some people up there, but they’re redoing it again, and the rents are going up. The rents are going through the ceiling.”

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