Why it's harder to buy fresh groceries in poor parts of American cities

+ how not to say 'I'm sorry' US Edition - Today's top story: How urban planning and housing policy helped create 'food apartheid' in US cities [View in browser]( US Edition | 9 March 2021 [The Conversation]( Academic rigor, journalistic flair Newsletter intros are usually written by an editor sitting at a desk. As chance would have it, this one is being bashed out in the back of a cab in New York City (excuse typos). That reality allows me to detail the city as it goes from a gentrified, whiter area of Brooklyn into one that is poorer and with a higher proportion of Black residents. Whereas a few minutes ago my taxi passed a Whole Foods, a Fresh Market grocery and a line of high-end restaurants, now out the window the only food options I see are fast-food joints (and there are plenty of them) and small bodegas. This is not uncommon in America. Low-income urban areas, home to many Black and Hispanic families, tend to have fewer options for healthy food. 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