FRESNO, Calif. – Allysunn Walker often hears that her community wasn’t “left behind,” but rather “kept behind.”
That’s because southwest Fresno has borne the brunt of decades of redlining and disinvestment. As Fresno grew, this part of the city stayed largely the same.
To this day, Walker said, the area encompassing southwest Fresno has one grocery store and one bank. The zip code has one of the highest concentrations of poverty in the city…