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Problem or Need Statement

• The lack of grocery stores within wards 7 and 8 contributed high rates of obesity. Within ward 8 ( 71.5% of residents are living with obesity) (satiation) and the reason for that relates to the ward being plagued by food deserts.

• Specifically wards like 7 and 8, what is absent are coordinated efforts connecting the public, private and federal resources to increase the residents within these wards access to healthy foods within their communities.

Background/Significance of the Problem

• Washington, DC food deserts are most commonly located in wards 5, 7 and 8.

• Researchers didn’t survey wards 5, 7 and 8- where they would have been even more likely to find stores participating in the healthy corner program, because those wards are home to food deserts. The demonstrated success of these programs, where they are put in use, begs for expansion, starting with communities most in need and alternately branching out across the city.

• Wards 7 and 8, the two wards with the lowest average household incomes, have 16% of the districts grocery stores but 23% of the city’s population, while ward 2 (including Georgetown) and 3, the two with the highest household incomes, have 44% of the city’s grocery stores and 27% of the population.

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