Efforts to subsidize grocery stores in food deserts can work, but not if they repeat the same mistakes made in other parts of the country.
Everyone deserves access to fresh and affordable food, and two major initiatives are currently in the works across the state trying to make that happen.
The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority will spend $2 million to study and support business investment in the Lower 9th Ward, with the hopes of getting a grocery store to fill the retail void left since Katrina devastated the area twenty years ago…