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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-12

FoodAccessIQ: A Six-Part Score for Local Food Access

foodaccessiq.org ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 78.0
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A Bay Area pilot that turns neighborhood food access into a transparent 0–100 index.

Why it surfaced

FoodAccessIQ combines grocery availability, store quality, affordability, transportation, healthy food, and community resources into one score whose inputs and weights can be inspected. It is explicitly framed as demonstration data and an AI-assisted prototype, but the civic question is concrete: how strong is food access where you live?

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-12 Domain Arrivals issue.