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10 <br /> Recommendations: Example 2 <br /> There needs to be a focus on longer term changes not just <br /> immediate-needs based services. We need deeper investments in <br /> ending hunger that address underlying issues like wages and cost of <br /> living. <br /> Housing is an important part of these longer term solutions. Community Experts <br /> recommend that any time a new development is being proposed or built, a certain <br /> number of new apartments or homes must be set aside for subsidized/affordable <br /> housing. Experts see gentrification tearing apart communities and neighborhoods <br /> being broken up because of taxes and cost of living. Community Experts also <br /> want to see a publicly accessible list of existing policies that combat the harms of <br /> gentrification. <br />