Foodways of the urban poor

Alkon, Alison Hope; Block, Daniel; Moore, Kelly; Gillis, Catherine; DiNuccio, Nicole; Chávez, Noel

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.04.021

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“…For example, participants' disabling conditions in some instances may have limited their access to grocery stores, even when their SRO housing was located in relative proximity. The results of this and other studies suggest that the relationship between the local food environment and dietary and health outcomes is far from straightforward, and that other social-material factors such as household finances, housing status and disability, in addition to proximity to markets, are critical in explaining levels of food insecurity (58)(59)(60)(61) . Altogether, the results of the current study suggest that high levels of food insecurity may persist among lowincome, marginally housed populations such as SRO residents, despite access to grocery stores, free meal programmes and SNAP benefits.…”

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Prevalence and covariates of food insecurity among residents of single-room occupancy housing in Chicago, IL, USA

Bowen¹,

Bowen²,

Barman‐Adhikari³

2015

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: Emerging evidence suggests that food insecurity is a significant public health concern among people who are homeless or marginally housed. The present study assessed prevalence of food insecurity and its covariates among a group of marginally housed individuals living in single-room occupancy (SRO) dwellings, a population for which there is little extant health or nutrition research. Design: Cross-sectional survey incorporating the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale. Setting: Ten private SRO residences in the Uptown neighbourhood of Chicago, IL, USA, 2013. Subjects: SRO residents over 18 years of age who were able to communicate verbally in English (n 153). Results: Food insecurity was widespread among SRO residents, with 75 % of the sample considered food insecure and 52 % meeting criteria for severe food insecurity. Bivariate analyses indicated that female gender, eating most meals at a soup kitchen, having a mental health condition, problem drinking, having at least one chronic health condition, and diabetes were all significantly associated with food insecurity. In the multivariate ordered logistic regression model, eating most meals at a soup kitchen remained as the only significant correlate of food insecurity (OR = 10·13). Conclusions: SRO residents and other marginally housed populations face unique food access challenges. Although targeted assistance in the form of food stamps and congregate meal programmes remains critical, efforts to prevent and address food insecurity among homeless and marginally housed individuals should include policy interventions that recognize poverty as the root cause of food insecurity and aim to increase overall income and improve housing conditions.

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Prevalence and covariates of food insecurity among residents of single-room occupancy housing in Chicago, IL, USA

Bowen¹,

Bowen²,

Barman‐Adhikari³

2015

Public Health Nutr.

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“…While these are useful and necessary, they are not sufficient. More scholars are calling for studies and policies that consider perceived as well as objective access and value self-reporting as reasonable measures of access (Alkon, Block, Moore, Gillis, DiNuccio, & Chavez, 2013;DeLind, 2006;Moore, Diez Roux, & Franco, 2012). For example, at present access does not consider residents' perception of food quality or neighborhood crime rates.…”

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Valuing All Knowledges Through an Expanded Definition of Access

Usher

2015

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Historical racial injustices as well as more recent public and economic policies have culminated in the displacement of supermarkets from some central city neighborhoods. With this displacement, many low-income and minority neighborhoods not only have been deprived of affordable healthful food, but also have experienced prolonged exposure to energy-dense and highly processed snack foods. Partly as a consequence of this loss of supermarkets, diet-related diseases have become prevalent. Our current policies to improve this health issue address only objective measures of access, with little input from community residents, and they are having limited results. In response, I have reconceptualized access as a construct with five dimensions: acceptability, accessibility, accommodation, affordability, and availability. This new expanded view supports both objective and perceived aspects of access and values the knowledge of residents through community-based participatory research, thereby providing a more complete understanding of access.Keywords food access, race, five dimensions of access, grocery gap, health disparity, community-based participatory research, social determinants of health, food desert he increase in youth obesity rates and dietrelated diseases across age groups in lowincome and predominantly minority neighborhoods relative to middle-class White neighborhoods has received national attention of late

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“…Operationalization has primarily emphasized measurements of access to and distribution of commodities, aiming interventions toward the re-allocation of food resources at various scales. Indeed, although food security is now favored over the outmoded paradigm of hunger (Bellows & Hamm, 2002), a commodity-deficit framework may not fully account for the structural conditions and entangled practices that contribute to (or constrain) food security (Alkon et al, 2013).…”

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The SNAP Challenge: Communicating Food Security Capabilities through Anti-Hunger Advocacy

Hunt

2018

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Foodways of the urban poor

Cited by 182 publications

References 36 publications

Prevalence and covariates of food insecurity among residents of single-room occupancy housing in Chicago, IL, USA

Prevalence and covariates of food insecurity among residents of single-room occupancy housing in Chicago, IL, USA

Valuing All Knowledges Through an Expanded Definition of Access

The SNAP Challenge: Communicating Food Security Capabilities through Anti-Hunger Advocacy

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