As someone who works in nonprofits serving Duluth’s most marginalized neighborhoods, reading about Duluth’s $1 billion-plus worth of hospitals and the neighborhoods they’ve displaced is both upsetting and infuriating.

Our city’s two major hospital systems have invested more than $1.5 billion in their facilities in recent years, including taxpayer-backed funding. Meanwhile, families just blocks away rely on food shelves and unstable housing to survive. These “nonprofit” medical institutions receive tax breaks and public incentives, yet give little back to the communities they claim to serve. This isn’t progress; it’s systemic neglect.

I work with families every day struggling to access basic care, nutritious food, and stable shelter — all in the shadow of gleaming towers of health care. I

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