Readers oppose publicly-owned grocery stores in Boston. Here’s why. City Council may see promise in city-owned grocery stores, but readers aren’t convinced they’d solve the city’s food access issues.

Julian Agyeman is a professor in the department of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University, where Shannon O’Callaghan and Sophia Olivieri are graduate students. Liz Breadon, ...

City-owned grocery stores were one of the proposals on the affordability platform that helped Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani win New York City’s recent mayoral election. Prices at the stores ...

Boston city councilors are mulling the idea of city-owned grocery stores, amid a greater conversation about the city’s role in fighting food insecurity. The lengthy government shutdown only magnified ...

The Boston City Council is considering opening publicly-owned grocery stores to address food insecurity — but not everyone’s convinced it’s the right solution. After a majority of the council showed ...