Here's Amy.

Well, Beloved Asheville really started because we knew that we need each other to survive and thrive, and that the power of community is really the solution to everything.

We've really built on that over the years to recognize that, that we all need a, a collective of people who care, and that we need to strengthen the fabric of our everyday lives through community, and recognizing that out of our common struggles come the collective power that we need to solve those community struggles and also to dream together of the communities that we wanna live in and make those dreams happen.

And that was the essence of Beloved Asheville, and it's really taken us in many different directions as innovative solution creators around healthy food access, around, uh, healthcare access, and now we've done much work around deeply affordable housing creation, and of course, now I've experienced one of the largest climate disasters in the US history.

Can you just explain the importance of the long-term community aspects that make Beloved so crucial in a time of crisis?

We knew where different people were living, and we knew those that would really struggle with access, um, to resources even being brought in, and, and we know how to innovate and adapt.

It's something that we've gotten very good at.

So if you can imagine the zone that we were in, you know, seeing trauma and, and tragedy everywhere you looked, just horrific scenes, um, of death and destruction.