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Austin now has a city official dedicated to making sure residents who get priced out of their neighborhoods can seek help and remain in the place they call home.  Nefertitti Jackmon, the former executive director of Six Square, a nonprofit that seeks to preserve the cultural legacy of Austin’s Black Cultural District, became the Housing and Planning Departments first community displacement prevention officer on Wednesday. Jackmon began working for the city of Austin in October 2019 as t...