Across America, stubbornly high food prices are compounding the problems of hunger and food scarcity.

People are facing tough choices in order to stretch their budgets to cover basics like housing and childcare.

Blair Waltman-Elexand of Austin PBS and Isadora Day with Austin Vita look at how residents in one community are stepping up to help neighbors in need.

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I ran everything as a volunteer for the first about eight years, and we just got really, really busy.

So now this is actually my full-time job.

I'm David Horning.

I am the executive director at Impact Now Dev Springs.

We're the only food distribution that I know of

in Dev Springs that's like a permanent location.

I'm here six days a week.

On Tuesdays, in the mornings, we pack all of our shelf-stable food.

So we're packing cans, we're packing rice, we're packing beans.

We're usually packing about 220 bags.

Yeah, for Christmas. We're usually packing about 220 bags. On Fridays, we pick up about 7,000 pounds of food from the food bank.

Saturday morning, we get here at 745.

We pack all of our fresh and frozen foods.

Two in the back seat guys.

And then at 9 a.m. we open and we start distributing.

And as how many families, four or three?

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