Urban Health

Fair Foods of Dorchester, Massachusetts, has for over 30 years distributed really low cost high quality produce - vegetables (mostly) and fruits to about 70 locations neighborhoods throughout Greater Boston (mostly Boston)! Years, ago, as part of my work with Mission Hill Health Movement (an nearly 40-year-old community health organization in the Mission Hill portion of Roxbury), we brought Fair Foods to Mission Hill (where they had not been currently operating).  Now they have more sites in the neighborhood, but the neighbors get 'upwards of 20 pounds' of fresh produce for $2 per bag. "So that no one is left out..." Here's the 'produce haul' (for $2 per bag) on Wednesday late afternoon, November 21, 2017 (the late afternoon BEFORE Thanksgiving). *   1 box of 'Olivia's Natural' organic spinach *   1 20-ounce bag of organic spinach *   4 medium-sized yellow squash *   4 large red onions *   6 medium-sized yellow onions *   1 large b

Maynard S Clark HOME RESEARCH CV CONTACT BIOGRAPHY Across the United States, several American communities have made it illegal to smoke anywhere in multi-unit buildings (apartments, condominiums, cooperatives) because of the long-term but often unacknowledged health, medical, and thus financial risks to residents from inhaling secondhand smoke that seeps into nonsmokers' units or is wafted through ventilation systems. Housing industry background analysis evaluates issues and resources for implementing smoke-free policies in a private, cooperatively-owned residential high-rise building – but in ways so that no one will be hurt in the process, acknowledging a variable array of persons' 'ownership of their habits.' This research is to inform both decision-makers and implementation by identifying successful implementation elsewhere of 100% nonsmoking policies in large multi-unit dwellings and local and other resources supporting these specific