The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) announced a select release of its 2014 update to the Limited Supermarket Access (LSA) Analysis. This is a part of TRF's extensive efforts to address inadequate and inequitable access to healthy foods in communities across the country, and includes data for 5 states: California, Colorado, Florida, Ohio, and Virginia.

These states are served through ReFresh, TRF's national initiative to improve access to healthy foods in urban and rural communities across the U.S. TRF launched this first of its kind CDFI capacity building initiative with a grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. CDFIs that are part of ReFresh are the Finance Fund Capital Corporation, the Florida Community Loan Fund, the Northern California Community Loan Fund, the Colorado Enterprise Fund and Virginia Community Capital. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that 29.7 million Americans live in low-income areas more than one mile from a supermarket; creating a lack of adequate access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food choices. 

For more information, read the TRF press release or visit PolicyMap's blog.

The 2014 LSA data for the five states is currently available at www.policymap.com, under the "Analytics" tab.