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How urban planning and housing policy helped create 'food apartheid' in US cities

  • Written by Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
How urban planning and housing policy helped create 'food apartheid' in US citiesBlack neighborhoods have a higher density of fast-food outlets than in white districts.David McNew/Getty Images

Hunger is not evenly spread across the U.S., nor within its cities.

Even in the the richest parts of urban America there are pockets of deep food insecurity, and more often than not it is Black and Latino communities that are hit hardest.

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