• grue@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Apparently, Atlanta is doing it.[1]

    I’m an Atlantan and this is the first I’m hearing of it. Neat!

    Reading the article, though, it’s really just that the city is subsidizing a private business (and in one of the two cases, acting as its landlord) in order to create an incentive to open in a food desert, not actually getting into the business of operating a grocery store directly itself.

    I mean, I got a loan from Invest Atlanta to help with the down payment on my house, but that doesn’t mean the city owns my house or that it’s some kind of ‘government housing.’

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      4 days ago

      I mean, I got a loan from Invest Atlanta to help with the down payment on my house, but that doesn’t mean the city owns my house or that it’s some kind of ‘government housing.’

      That really depends on who you ask these days doesn’t it.

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      6 days ago

      I see. Question then is whether the store operator gets to set the prices. Donald Trump of course lives in government housing right now, so that’s ok too.