{"id":9638,"date":"2021-11-16T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/12\/greenville-looks-to-set-statewide-example-in-solving-food-desert-problem\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:44:38","slug":"greenville-looks-to-set-statewide-example-in-solving-food-desert-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/greenville-looks-to-set-statewide-example-in-solving-food-desert-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville looks to set statewide example in solving food desert problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned citizens and groups like LiveWell Greenville aim to make food deserts a thing of the past. Food deserts, where there&#8217;s a lack of access to healthy, fresh foods, are typically found in low-income urban areas. But the City of Greenville is considering an ordinance that will incentivize grocery stores to open in these special emphasis locations.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Kolb, chair of the Department of Sociology at Furman University and author of &#8220;Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Debate,&#8221; contributed to a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/community\/city-of-greenville-looks-to-set-statewide-example-in-solving-food-desert-problem\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a><\/strong> article. He told reporter Mike McMillan that many of those neighborhoods became a repository for bad retailers that catered to vice and exploited the poor, and the liquor stores and overpriced convenience stores offered little in terms of fresh foods.<\/p>\n<p>Furman psychology alumnus Dan Weidenbenner &#8217;11, executive director of Mill Village Ministries, was also quoted in the piece. He said city council&#8217;s efforts amount to an \u201camazing and exciting first step\u201d in changing the landscape of West Greenville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned citizens and groups like LiveWell Greenville aim to make food deserts a thing of the past. Food deserts, where there&#8217;s a lack of access to healthy, fresh foods, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,48,22],"tags":[146,1046,1178,1179,1180,1181],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-psychology","category-sociology","tag-city-of-greenville","tag-food-deserts","tag-grocery-stores","tag-livewell-greenville","tag-low-income-urban-neighborhoods","tag-tax-incentives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}