# HBAC #159 - Food for the Fourth and City Housing Policy Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hilliard-beacon-podcast-6738112/hbac-159-food-for-the-fourth-and-city-housing-policy Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hilliard-beacon-podcast-6738112/hbac-159-food-for-the-fourth-and-city-housing-policy.md Podcast: [The Hilliard Beacon Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hilliard-beacon-podcast-6738112) Published: 2026-07-01T19:00:35+00:00 Episode link: https://hilliardbeacon.substack.com/p/hbac-159-food-for-the-fourth-and Audio file: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202648092/2f30ed4f5df9f910acf735acaa3d5a2f.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-hilliard-beacon-podcast-6738112/episodes/hbac-159-food-for-the-fourth-and-city-housing-policy Duration seconds: 3437 ## Resource A HOT hello to you all! We interview a quadruplet of guests this week, starting off with returning brothers Sam and Charlie Owsley who join us to hype the second annual Food for the Fourth donation event benefiting Hilliard Food Pantry . Every donation helps local families, and just $1 donated allows the Hilliard Food Pantry to purchase about $6 worth of food from the Mid-Ohio Food Collective. How to Donate on Parade Day: Starting around 8:45 a.m., look for volunteers, trucks, and police escort moving along the parade route ahead of the parade. Donations will be collected from parade attendees all along the route before the parade begins at 9 a.m. Last year the brothers and volunteer teams collected 800 pounds of food and north of $800 in direct donations. We’re really proud of these young guys who have created a lasting commitment to help their neighbors and larger community. Let’s all pitch in this weekend and help each other out! And in the Second Half… We welcome Deputy Planning Director Jackie Yeoman and Chair of the Housing Steering Commission, Vince Papsidero to walk us through the findings of the year long process to redefine the City’s collective approach to Housing.We allude to the fact in the interview that housing policy can be political and personal with opinions coming in hot and heavy from every perspective but the work over the past year of the commission has been rooted in a broad, comprehensive approach that unlocks some immediate mechanisms and lays the groundwork for future evolutions within our city.To get a look at every stage of the process - including the final June presentation - follow the links below: We’ve always said on this program that knowing where the bulldozers will be BEFORE they start ripping up your neighborhood is preferable. Devel… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-hilliard-beacon-podcast-6738112/episodes/hbac-159-food-for-the-fourth-and-city-housing-policy/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hilliard-beacon-podcast-6738112/hbac-159-food-for-the-fourth-and-city-housing-policy.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.