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Shreveport Times reports on Allendale’s rise from ‘food desert’ status

Shreveport Times reports on Allendale’s rise from ‘food desert’ status

The first Fuller Center homes built in the United States were in Shreveport’s Allendale community, a neighborhood so afflicted with crime and drugs that the police asked Millard Fuller not to work there as people’s safety could not be guaranteed. Naturally, true to Millard’s way, that’s exactly where he chose to begin work. More than […]