Community Food Advocates and its partners are excited about the promise of city-owned supermarkets and are eager to ensure its success.

Our shared premise is that bold, innovative solutions are essential, as the private market has not ensured affordability overall and has failed to address the entrenched challenges of affordability, quality, and proximity that remain acute in low-income and gentrifying neighborhoods.

We believe solving these issues requires an expansive and multipronged approach.

In this document, we focus on recommendations to both make the promise of NYC’s city-owned supermarket model a success alongside proposals for NYC to create a fertile environment for the growth of cooperative ownership and a democratic, solidarity economy.