Fresh Relief for Baltimore's Food Deserts
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On a mid-July day on Baltimore’s west side, residents of the Mount Clare Overlook development for the elderly and disabled wait in a common area for a delivery. After about 10 minutes a young man bounds in, hoisting flats of bottled water and plastic crates filled with bags of groceries from Santoni’s Super Market, a family-run store on the city’s east side.
For the people of Mount Clare, most of whom are lower-income and don’t have cars, those bags come from another world. The only neighborhood market closed two years ago, says resident William Freeman, who helps out with a program that lets local people order their groceries online and pay on delivery.