Walk the Talk: Panel and Tour of Missing Middle Housing

Imagine Austin and the AIA Austin DesignVoice committee present: Walk the Talk – Panel and Tour of Missing Middle Housing in the Clarksville and Old West Austin neighborhoods. This is the third in a series of panels and tours of "missing middle" housing in neighborhoods across Austin.

Our panel will feature speakers who can touch on the history of Clarksville, fair housing, historic preservation, and the role CodeNEXT and the new LDC has in advancing our city's growth through sustainable and, when appropriate, denser models of housing. We want to further educate our audience on the role missing middle housing typologies play in creating a more compact, connected, and affordable city. How does this tie into the broader scope of multi-modal transportation, income diversity, and preserving neighborhood character while also allowing for denser housing to help "fill the gap"?

Panelists:

Jim Robertson – City of Austin/ CodeNEXT
Mary Reed – President of Clarksville Community Development Corporation
Jessi Koch – City of Austin/ Neighborhood Housing & Community Development
John Henneberger – Texas Low Income Housing Information Service, 2014 MacArthur Foundation Fellow

If you're curious what "missing middle" housing is, visit www.missingmiddlehousing.com. You might already live in a missing middle type house, have them in your neighborhood, or know someone who lives in one.

This panel and tour endeavors to explore the range of missing middle housing, what it looks like and what it means for our communities. At each tour and panel we learn the challenges and opportunities that a diverse housing stock presents and visibly what those housing types look like in our neighborhoods.

If you weren't able to join us for the first two panels and tours, check out these links for the presentations and the video (only available for the 2nd event):

http://www.austintexas.gov/blog/walk-talk-missing-middle-panel-presentations

http://www.austintexas.gov/blog/walk-talk-2-panelists-presentations-and-video

A special thanks to our Community Partners:

Abide Residential, Amy Hayes

Austin Foundation for Architecture

BIG RED DOG ENGINEERING

Real Estate Council of Austin (RECA)

Vectorworks