SitemapThe Mobile Market Initiative in Mahoning Valley aims to deliver groceries to the city's most vulnerable residents by 2022.
The initiative launched Tuesday with a goal to secure a bus to set up shop in different areas of the city to allow people to purchase healthy groceries at low prices.
Rose Carter, executive director of ACTION, said Youngstown has been in a food desert for the past six years.
“We want to be able to make it as comfortable and convenient, especially our most vulnerable and handicapped people, as possible,” Carter said.
Mayor Jamael Tito Brown has acknowledged the city is in a food desert, she said. Brown has also discussed luring a grocery store to Youngstown through the $82.7 million the city is receiving from the American Rescue Plan.
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