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Definition of a Food Desert While there are many ways to define a food desert, the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) Working Group considers a food desert as a /ow-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store. To qualify as low-income, census tracts must meet the Treasury Department's New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program eligibility criteria. Furthermore, to qualify as a food desert tract, at least 33 percent of the tract's population or a minimum of 500 people in the access to a supermarket or large grocery store. The NMTC program defines a low-income census tract as: any census >I tract where (1) the poverty rate for that tract is at least 20 percent, or (2) l, for tracts not located within a metropolitan area, the median family ' income for the does not exceed 80 percent of statewide median . i family income; or for tracts located within a metropolitan area, the median family income for the tract does not exceed 80 percent of the greater of statewide median family income or the metropolitan area .. ...., · ' • .•I , . r- ' v " , \ " ' ,' / \r '{v'r· :,. median family income. --.-> . :.,.. ... " ··, ,.\. / ' , .,.,.., /' • · '\,' \ 1' / " t'x '" • ., ·· .rI \ '. I.._> / .. / . \. .· -. '",;;, , ''.Y / > : ,,.,/ •{,/ \..t.. / - , •••w ( ,, ' -- - . -- IJ, ,,,./.., -i', · -"; .'I t' ( '\..- · - . 'S, ••• \ - -., ..... -( \ / \ " -,. .... .. ,,( ii.,,, . A ' I • • I I < Q < • UGHES GOODMAN Ill' 125 1-
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