City hosts talk on displacement

Urban Displacement Project founder Karen Chapple will speak as part of the city’s Imagine Austin Speaker Series today, July 18, from 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Chapple will talk about affordable housing and displacement, from her perspective as a professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley. According to a press release from the city, Chapple “has researched ways to minimize displacement by constructing both market-rate and subsidized housing, as well as aggressively preserving affordable units and protecting tenants’ rights. Her research has found that for each subsidized housing unit, two or more market-rate units need to be built to similarly reduce displacement pressures. Chapple’s recent book is Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions: Towards More Equitable Development.” This event is free and open to the public, and will take place at the Town Lake Center Building, in Room 130.