 So we'll go ahead and get started. My name is Mani Socorpez. I work with Esperanza Peace and Justice Center. And I think of myself as a community scholar, as a liberation sociologist. So I'm trained as an academic in understanding power relations within contemporary modernity in modern society. And I apply my training with Esperanza doing community organizing and trying to create spaces for people to be able to really generate analyses of the situations that they're living so that they can organize more effectively and transform the conditions that they're wanting to understand. And so for this event, which we call the People's Luncheon for Real Solutions to Gentrification, what we were wanting to do is to create a moment where we can have a discussion that's truly public about gentrification that is, in fact, led by folks who are living those forces in their neighborhoods and in their everyday lives. We wanted to bring together people who are most burdened by the city's approach to downtown redevelopment and people who are in office or representing those in office who are looking for concrete ways of responding to those burdens so as to prevent them or to address them. Just so that we can start off on the same page, if anybody wants to give a definition of gentrification, that'd probably be a good place to start. What do you understand as that definition? Anybody want to take a stab? I feel like I'm taking election calls again. What is gentrification? This placement of people who have lived or worked in community for a long time by economic or social forces that have not given them a choice but to leave. Yeah, so this placement is a really key element of the definition, unless I think why a lot of folks are coming into space to share their experiences. I think the other really important piece of that is that it's pushed by these big picture economic, historical, social forces. So it's a transformation of urban spaces in ways in which the forces of producing profit from real estate, trying to get a good investment or return for investment, those forces are transforming urban space in such a way that they're recreating them for the desires and the interests of folks with more money. And so those are the forces that are effectively pushing people out, or even if they're not directly pushing people out, making them feel that the neighborhoods that they call home are no longer for them. So there is a loss of place if not outright displacement or physical relocation. So in organizing this conversation about gentrification, what we were wanting to respond to a few different things, most kind of urgently and immediately the horrible situation that we've seen at Mission Trails and that those folks have been put into by all of those different forces at work that you are alluding to, by the park owners, by the developer of white comedy builders, but also by local government that has no kind of long-term policy solutions to those forces. And so it either has no way to prevent them from happening and no effective way to really respond when a situation like that does arise. So we're wanting to respond to this moment in time when it's more apparent than ever that we really need those kinds of solutions on the policy level. The second thing we wanted to respond to, though, was something that Mayor Castro has called for recently, kind of in the wake of the Mission Trails situation, which is that we really need a task force on affordable housing. And we need a process of beginning to draft and to think long-term about policy solutions to gentrification and displacement. But then the third thing is that we're also responding to signs that we see that these conversations about problems and solutions are going to be led by the same forces that are creating problematic forms of development to begin with. So as a lot of you may know, there's a luncheon happening after this one, hosted by San Antonio, which is the registration fee is $75 or $90 today if you didn't get the early bird prices. And so there's a kind of terrible irony that we're seeing of the folks who are defining what development is and defining what kinds of investment and where and who gets impacted are the same people that then get to say what the solutions are. And that's really problematic. And so we need to create alternative spaces where we get to, as the communities that are most impacted, develop our own analysis, which we can then share with people in policy-making capacities so that we can identify the solutions based on our experiences. So we wanted to create that kind of alternative that would be truly free, truly open to the public, and create that space for the people who are most impacted to share what they're experiencing and also to define the solutions. And then there'll also be a chance for the folks who have attended from who are representing state offices, city offices, to give their responses based on the testimony that we share with you, what are your thoughts about potential solutions? So what we're going to do today, I'll just quickly go over the agenda. We'll spend about 15, 20 minutes talking about some of the big picture forces at work. And we've invited three scholars from local universities and one community worker, community health worker from mental health to share the historical and sociological and the public health point of view about what's behind all of these forces that we're feeling in our neighborhoods. So and then after that, we'll move to hearing testimony from different residents. So there's folks here from different communities around the city that have all been impacted in different ways by downtown redevelopment. And so that's a chance for them to really say what's going on in their neighborhoods and what they're observing. And then we'll wrap up at the end with just kind of having a more informal exchange about solutions. And like I mentioned that we're not necessarily going to break for lunch. So at any point, if you want food, please feel free to just grab some back there. So it's free. So you should take as much as you can actually. Take it all away. Does that sound OK? OK. And if we need to, if the setup is not conducive to conversation, we can at any moment kind of adjust our chairs and turn towards each other. So the first kind of thing that we wanted to do is to get a little bit of insight from folks who study city politics, either historically or sociologically or in terms of public health. And just kind of answer the question, what is that root? What is the root cause of these things that we're experiencing in our neighborhoods in the form of gentrification? So we've invited Christine Drenner, Dr. Christine Drenner from Urban Studies at Trinity. Hayley Sanders, who's with the Public Policy Department at UTSA. And Mary Figuard from Sociology at Trinity, who I think more specifically do medical sociology. And then Huni Fega, who's with Metro Health and who coordinates the Community Health Roma Dota program there. So what would be the best way that y'all could maybe, do you want to come up here? Do you want to have us turn towards you? Say what? The line is still there. OK, so then if we can just, I'll invite Christine first just to kind of, the big question that I want to throw out at the four of you and maybe just take about five minutes. Do your best in five minutes to address this really complicated question. But when we look at some of the struggles around gentrification that have emerged as the city has pursued downtown redevelopment, what do you see as the root of these struggles? So what connects the dots right between mission trails, K Street Bridge, Demolition of Huni Vision, and other struggles around land enhancing?