CHICAGO — Today, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a partnership with the Economic Security Project to start on a pathway towards the opening of a municipally owned grocery store in Chicago. The Economic Security Project, a national non-profit dedicated to building economic power for all Americans, will provide technical assistance in determining a pathway to the first municipally owned grocery store in Chicago. This collaboration furthers the Johnson administration’s work towards repairing past harms that have contributed to purposeful disinvestment and exclusion and lack of food access in historically underserved communities.

This sounds like a good idea after the high profile whole foods Englewood closure. There have been other abrupt closures in recent years as well like food 4 less in back of the yards.

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
    71·
    1 年前

    I think governments should be able to make any business they want as long as it can support itself like the mail service. After all the free market is supposed to be more efficient and we also need some option when competition is just not showing up.

    • andrew@midwest.socialOPEnglish
      7·
      1 年前

      I’d really like to see fiber and banking as services at the municipal level that could lilely pay for themselves. However services needing to support themselves encourages short term solutions. Libraries, parks, and schools are unlikely to turn a profit but are critical to providing a minimum quality of life. Public transportation investment pays off over decades not a financial quarter and provides long term tangible benefits to the city beyond the fare box. If it pays for itself it’s a no brainier, but many things that cost more than they make or have long term payoffs that are hard to measure are critically important.

      • HubertManne@kbin.social
        2·
        1 年前

        Yeah im not saying apply this to everything but right now its like the municipalities get sued if they do stuff and thats just not right.