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The focus of this article discusses only the H Street store
As to H street being a food desert
"The HFFI working group defines a food desert as a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store:
To qualify as a “low-income community,” a census tract must have either: 1) a poverty rate of 20 percent or higher, OR 2) a median family income at or below 80 percent of the area’s median family income;
To qualify as a “low-access community,” at least 500 people and/or at least 33 percent of the census tract’s population must reside more than one mile from a supermarket or large grocery store (for rural census tracts, the distance is more than 10 miles)."
The Safeway at 5th and L NW is 5 to 6 blocks and the Harris Teeter in NOMA and the Giant to be built at 3rd and H St NE are all less than a mile from the Walmart on H St so just where is the population for this food desert located?

by Dan Maceda on Sep 15, 2011 11:58 am • link • report