Getting to Grocery: Tools for Attracting Healthy Food Retail to Underserved Neighborhoods
Type
Policy Brief or Report
Year
2012
Level
County
State(s)
All States
Policy Areas
Children & Families, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Food, Health
Bringing a grocery store into an underserved neighborhood not only makes fresh produce and other healthy food more accessible, it can provide livingwage jobs, raise the value of surrounding property, and anchor and attract additional businesses to the neighborhood. A wide range of public, private, and nonprofit organizations work to support projects - like grocery store development - that help build a healthy economy. This guide is designed to help advocates and public health agencies coordinate and leverage tools available through local government and other organizations to bring healthy food options into low-income communities. Economic development refers to a range of activities that help build and sustain a healthy economy.
Tags
- Agriculture
- Children
- Co-Op
- Cooperatives
- Diversity
- EBT
- Electronic Benefits Transfer
- Equity
- Ethnicity
- Farm to Table
- Farmers' Market
- Farmer'S Market
- Food Stamps
- Garden
- Health Equity
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Organic
- Race
- SNAP
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
- Sustainability
- WMBE
- Women and Minority Owned Business Enterprises