Community development leaders will discuss the factors contributing to displacement and propose solutions to improve housing access in our city's neighborhoods. The conversation will focus on how policy, economics, and culture intersect in our rapidly changing urban environments.

 

Panelists will include:

 

• Wildstyle Paschall, an artist and Central Indiana Community Foundation Community Ambassador

• Jeff Bennett, Deputy Mayor of Community Development, City of Indianapolis

• Amy Nelson, Executive Director of the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana

• Lourenzo Giple, Deputy Director of Planning, Preservation, and Design in the Department of Metropolitan Development, City of Indianapolis

 

Laura Holzman, Ph.D., an associate professor of art history and museum studies at IUPUI and Public Scholar of Curatorial Practices and Visual Art, will moderate the panel.

 

Before the discussion begins, Jordan Ryan, a Herron alumna, archivist, and interdisciplinary architectural historian, and Angie Calvert, an IUPUI School of Liberal Arts alumna, scholar, and lifelong resident of the Near Southeast neighborhood, will give brief presentations as primers.

 

Guests attended in person at IUPUI's Eskenazi Hall's Basile Auditorium and virtually via Zoom and Facebook.

 

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