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The Urban Lab
by Sam Chandan
The program on cities, real estate, and the urban and built environment, featuring leaders in industry, research, and policymaking; hosted by Dr. Sam Chandan, Silverstein Chair and academic dean of the NYU SPS Schack Institute and Fellow at the NYU Urban Lab.
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The Jobs Report We've Been Hoping For
Employers added 943,000 jobs in July, the highest monthly tally since August of last year. Unemployment is down and wages are up as the labor market tightens further, extending its recovery from the pandemic's initial, very deep losses. To parse the new data, Sam Chandan is joined by Dr. Marianne...
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May's Better Job Numbers Still Fall Short
Employers added 559,00 jobs in May, moving the headline unemployment rate to its lowest level since before the pandemic. Even so, May's numbers fell short of expectations and follow on a downside surprise in hiring in April. To parse the new data, Sam Chandan is joined by Dr. Marianne Wanamaker,...
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Bipartisan Solutions for Affordable Housing
Seth Appleton, President of MISMO and former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Alfonso Costa, Executive Vice President at the Falcone Group and former Deputy Chief of Staff at HUD, return to the Urban Lab to discuss their recent...
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Making Sense of April's Vexing Jobs Report
The April jobs report fell woefully short of economists' expectations, with employers adding just 266,000 jobs to payrolls. For women, total employment declined from March to April, reinforcing the recovery's continued unevenness. At the same time, labor supply constraints in some sectors of the...
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Is the Housing Market Overheating
House prices are increasing at their fastest pace since the peak of the pre-Financial Crisis housing boom, fueled by shortfalls in supply and record-low mortgage rates. As a rising share of market participants adopt an auction mentality, economists and policymakers are growing concerned about...
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March Job Gains Lift Confidence in the Recovery
Employers added more than 900,000 jobs in March 2021, the largest net gain in seven months. The increase is lifting confidence in the strength of the economic recovery, though it remains uneven. Kicking off a new monthly analysis of the labor market coinciding with the release of the Bureau of...
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How to Bring Housing Back Within Reach
Ed Pinto, Director of the Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute and former Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer at Fannie Mae, recaps his March 2021 testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. The Urban Lab is a non-partisan…
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State of Affordable Housing Finance
Kicking off season 2 of the Urban Lab, Sam Chandan is joined by Arthanais Williams, Managing Director for Affordable Housing at Arbor Realty Trust. Williams discusses differences across the formal affordable housing sector and naturally occurring affordable housing, reasons for the persistent...
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New York's Next Comeback
"Seven months after the first case of COVID-19 in New York was confirmed, it’s clear that the city and its surrounding region are enduring one of the biggest crises we have faced in nearly a century," writes the Regional Plan Association (RPA) in the preamble to its new evidence-based report, New...
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New Partnership Tackles Housing Affordability Crisis
Three of the nation's leading housing nonprofits—the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF), a community financial institution with $900 million in assets under management (AUM); Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF), a collaborative of affordable housing providers owning nearly 150,000...
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Playbook for Post-Pandemic Urban Resilience
Steven Pedigo, Director of the LBJ Urban Lab at the University of Texas at Austin and Non-Resident Fellow at the NYU Urban Lab, joins Sam Chandan to discuss A Playbook for Resiliency, co-authored with Kirk Watson, Dean of the Hobby School at the University of Houston, former Mayor of Austin, and...
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How Homebuilding is Leading the Recovery
Buoyed by the strongest new home sales market since before the Great Financial Crisis, homebuilder sentiment climbed to record levels in August, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). The housing tailwinds prevailing over drags from the labor market include historically…
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Increasing Strains on Small Apartment Landlords and Their Tenants
Noerena Limón from the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) and Ben Metcalf from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, join Sam Chandan to discuss the increasing challenges facing small apartment building owners and the...
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What's Next for Commercial Real Estate
Mitch Roschelle, Co-Publisher and Co-Chair of the ULI Emerging Trends in Real Estate report and Partner at PwC and Co-Chair of the firm's Real Estate Practice, joins Sam Chandan to discuss conditions in the commercial real estate market, the outlook for retail and office space demand, the...
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HUD's Role in Protecting Housing During the Crisis
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has played a critical role in the nation’s coronavirus pandemic response and in managing challenges to housing stability for both homeowners and renters impacted by the crisis. That support has taken myriad forms, ranging from forbearance…
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The Fight for Amazon: Revisiting the Battle for HQ2
Few corporate location decisions have generated as much excitement or controversy as Amazon’s search for HQ2. More than 200 cities across North America entered into a frenzied bidding war to become the tech giant’s next home, with New York City and Arlington, Virginia ultimately sharing the prize...
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Managing the Rise in Commercial Real Estate Distress
Brian Ward, CEO of Trimont and a member of the Board of Advisors at the NYU Schack Institute and Harvard Business School, joins Sam Chandan to discuss the rise in commercial real estate mortgage delinquencies and what happens when borrowers are unable to make their monthly mortgage payments. They...
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Why Cities Will Remain Our Centers of Innovation and Growth
Renowned urbanist Richard Florida joins Sam Chandan to discuss the future of cities as well as the social and economic forces contributing to protests taking place across the world following the death of George Floyd. Dr. Richard Florida is Distinguished Fellow at the NYU SPS Schack Institute's...
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What's Driving the Resilience of the Apartment Market
Ivan Kaufman, Chairman and CEO of Arbor Realty Trust, joins Sam Chandan to discuss apartment investment and lending during the pandemic, the availability of construction loans, the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, demand for single family rental homes, and Arbor's renter assistance program.…
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Getting Back to Work: The Economy, Jobs, and Real Estate
Willy Walker, Chairman and CEO of Walker & Dunlop and a board member of the Real Estate Roundtable and the Mortgage Bankers Association, joins Sam Chandan to discuss the outlook for the economy, the labor market, and real estate. Walker shares his views on the challenges facing different real...
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Changing Rules of Urban Placemaking
Kirk Sykes, Managing Director of Accordia Partners and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, joins Sam Chandan to discuss the planned transformation of Boston's Bayside and how the pandemic is shaping his vision for the project and its supporting infrastructure. Accordia is...
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The State of Commercial Real Estate Finance
Lisa Pendergast, Executive Director of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC), joins Sam Chandan to discuss conditions in the commercial lending market, disparities in access to financing across property types, the rising volume of forbearance requests, positive signs for the market's...
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Real Estate's Pandemic Policy Priorities
Jeff DeBoer, President and CEO of the Real Estate Roundtable, joins Sam Chandan to discuss the impact of the pandemic on the commercial real estate sector and the Roundtable's current policy priorities. They discuss the Roundtable's recommendations for reforming the Paycheck Protection Program...
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Collapsing Oil Prices: Implications for the Global Economy and Sustainability
With billions of people around the planet remaining in place, there are vastly fewer cars on the road and planes overhead. All manner of industries and household activities that rely on fossil fuels have seen declines of some degree. In cities such as New Delhi and Mumbai, images of the clearest...
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Restarting the New York City Economy
While New York City remains the US epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, indications of a plateau in diagnoses and deaths has allowed elected officials and policymakers to begin addressing how we will restart the local economy. Jonathan Bowles, Executive Director of the Center for an Urban…
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Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Workplace
Across the United States and around the world, offices moved abruptly to remote working during March. Questions about remote work and how it will disrupt the office sector have been points of debate for many years, but the suddenness of the current shift has given these questions new importance....
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Why are Black Americans Dying of COVID-19 at Staggeringly Higher Rates?
As the number of infections and deaths related to COVID-19 continue to rise in the United States, evidence is mounting of a disproportionate impact on people of color. To discuss the racial disparities in the trajectory of the pandemic, Dr. Sam Chandan is joined by Dr. Rashawn Ray, David M....
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The program on cities, real estate, and the urban and built environment, featuring leaders in industry, research, and policymaking; hosted by Dr. Sam Chandan, Silverstein Chair and academic dean of the NYU SPS Schack Institute and Fellow at the NYU Urban Lab.
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The program on cities, real estate, and the urban and built environment, featuring leaders in industry, research, and policymaking; hosted by Dr. Sam Chandan, Silverstein Chair and academic dean of the NYU SPS Schack Institute and Fellow at the NYU Urban Lab.
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