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6 <br /> 1 Slide #8 <br /> ROCOMmendatIOM. Example <br /> There needs to be a focus on longer term charges not just <br /> immediate-needs based services, We need deeper investments in <br /> ending hunger that address underlying issues Ike wages and cost of <br /> living. <br /> Housing is an important part of these ionger term solutions.Community Experts <br /> recommend that any time a new development is being proposed or built,a certain <br /> num bar of new apartrrments or homes must be set aside for sub5idizedfaffordable <br /> housing.Experts see gentrirication tearing apart communiiles and nelghborhoods <br /> being broken up because of tars and cost of living. Community Experts also <br /> want to see a publiclyaccesslble list of existing policies that combat the harms or <br /> gentrification, <br /> 2 <br /> 3 <br /> 4 Slide #9 <br /> "What i've noticed is living here forever, back in the day, <br /> you i go to your i i and ask them for i <br /> out the gentrification - ! tearing down <br /> neighborhood&..tearing neighborhoods apart. Like there's <br /> probably familiesf i i i i <br /> when them was ! like 20 or and you can'tgo ! • <br /> borrow syour • i i i • because <br /> your neighborsdon ! withyou anymore. <br /> 5 <br /> 6 Ashley Heger said the last time she presented to the Board, she highlighted five issues <br /> 7 that are related to food insecurity. She listed four of them to the Board: housing, direct food <br /> 8 programs, economic development, and transportation. She said the purpose was to get closer <br /> 9 to the solutions by getting closer to the problem. She asked that the Board focus their time and <br /> 10 attention on the recommendations that came from the community. <br /> 11 Commissioner Fowler asked if Ashley Heger followed up on the recommendations or if <br /> 12 this report is the follow-up to those recommendations. She said Food For Summer is run <br /> 13 through the school system and that is not part of the MOU. <br /> 14 Ashley Heger said they were in the process of organizing with community experts that <br /> 15 are already advocates for their communities. She said they are working with those experts on <br /> 16 how they want to build bridges and that school foods can be difficult to navigate due to issues <br /> 17 like USDA policies and other federal programs. She said that the decision makers will direct the <br /> 18 action. She said earlier in 2022, the Food Council requested ARPA funding to create a food <br /> 19 justice fund. She said they were not awarded the funds, so instead, the Food Council used <br />