With more than 23 million Americans without access to healthy foods, the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) is desperately needed to reduce obesity and bring needed jobs and investment to low-income urban and rural communities.
Since this campaign began, congressional appropriations subcommittees have taken giant steps to support the HFFI. The President's FY 2012 Budget Proposal for HFFI requested $330 million dollars from three agencies - USDA, Treasury, and HHS -- to provide loan and grant financing to attract grocery stores and other fresh food retail to underserved urban, suburban, and rural areas; and renovate and expand existing stores so they can provide the healthy foods that communities want and need.
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