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Originally Posted by Street Advocate
I’m going to recommend that you spend a couple minutes one afternoon and read about it. It is fun to know this stuff and also helps connect the dots with land use and several other planning concepts.
After spending some time with it, should make sense why a food desert for low income urban neighborhoods where people work multiple jobs, are transit reliant, with a job that requires you to be on site and/or perform physical labor, and may or may not be in a single parent household will have different stipulations for what a food desert is considered for people who don’t have to worry about what delivery fees or whether a company accepts food stamps.
I’ll add, I am not familiar whether SNAP is covered on any or perhaps select delivery platforms. Come to think of it, other than regular delivery from restaurants, I don’t think I’ve ever had groceries delivered.
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Very interesting insight. I would be interested in learning more about these things. I do know that SNAP is now issued via debit cards. So, technically, people can use their SNAP debit cards to grocery shop online. I think that this is fantastic, as there are many people who are elderly or disabled and this allows them some form of independence. The delivery fees are a different story. However, I do not think that they are cost prohibitive. The money that would go into gas, or paying for transit both ways to the grocery store is probably about the same...give or take.
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