Economic Development

Announcement March 13, 2024 Penn IUR Announces the 2024 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize Winners Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
Podcasts February 29, 2024 Special Briefing: State Tax Cuts With their revenues and cash reserves at record highs after unprecedented federal aid to offset the impact of COVID-19, dozens of states embarked on the biggest wave of tax cuts in decades, slashing levies by at least $124 billion on everything from personal income to groceries and gasoline. Join our next Special Briefing as the authors of the forthcoming Volcker Alliance issue paper, State Tax Cuts after the Pandemic: Strategies to Sustain Fiscal Health, and an expert panel discuss whether these reductions can be sustained as revenues have begun to weaken despite the strong US economy.  William Glasgall Susan Wachter Can Chen Alex Hathaway Geoffrey Buswick Natalie Cohen State & Local Finance
Publication February 14, 2024 Weitzman Students Present Green Infrastructure Plan to Ukrainian Ambassador Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
Feb 01 2024 Past Event Post Industrial DIY: Book Talk & Panel Discussion Urban Development
Jan 25 2024 Past Event Special Briefing: 2024 Fiscal Outlook for States and Cities State & Local Finance
Newsletter January 17, 2024 Penn IUR Newsletter, Fall 2023 Urban Development
Article January 8, 2024 Expert Voices 2024 | Remote Work: Its Impact on Cities To begin every new year, we publish a special issue of Urban Link for which we ask urban experts to reflect on a question of importance to cities. This year, we asked: What do you expect will happen to remote work trends in the future? How should cities respond to remote work’s impact on the value of their real estate, tax bases, and more broadly, urban life? Urban Development
Research Paper December 21, 2023 Calculating and Applying the Tract-Based Concentrated Poverty Index A new PIUR working paper by Professor Emeritus of City Planning John Landis entitled, Calculating and Applying the Tract-Based Concentrated Poverty Index, demonstrates the use of a Gini coefficient-like measure able to reliably track concentrated poverty at the local level and to compare its incidence by race and ethnicity. John Landis Urban Development State & Local Finance
Research Paper December 18, 2023 Good and Bad News About Income Inequality in Urban America A new working PennIUR working paper by Professor Emeritus of City Planning John Landis entitled, Good and Bad New about Income Inequality in Urban America, clarifies and updates the local income inequality picture. John Landis Housing State & Local Finance
Podcasts November 30, 2023 Special Briefing: Public Pensions - Still a Crisis? Many states, counties, and cities emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting recession with record cash reserves following the US government's injection of $5 trillion to revive the economy and prop up local government budgets. But even after the unprecedented federal support, states and municipalities have been left with more than $1.3 trillion in unfunded liabilities for public employee pension benefits that were promised but are not fully funded. Join our panel of experts as they discuss strategies that state and local governments are adopting to reduce this pension burden and whether they may have to reduce spending for education, infrastructure, and other critical public services to make room for increasing retirement contributions.Our panel of experts will include Liz Farmer, public finance journalist and co-host of the Public Money podcast; Vedanta Goenka, senior municipal strategist, Citigroup; Merl Hackbart, professor emeritus, Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Kentucky; Shoaib Khan, director, New Jersey Treasury Division of Investment; Anthony Randazzo, executive director, Equable Institute; and Les Richmond, vice president and actuary, Build America Mutual. William Glasgall Susan Wachter Liz Farmer Vedanta Goenka Dr. Merl Hackbart Shoaib Khan Anthony Randazzo Les Richmond State & Local Finance
Article November 13, 2023 SDSN Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance Looks Ahead to COP28 Climate Change & Resilience State & Local Finance
Nov 13 2023 Past Event Private Cities in the Developing World: Has Their Time Come? Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
Research Paper November 1, 2023 A Comparative Study of International Financial Models to Increase Longterm Rental Housing Supply in South Korea This review is part of the 5th Joint Research initiative between The Wilson Center in Washington D.C. and The Housing And Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG), a South Korean public company offering housing and rental guarantees to improve housing opportunities and general welfare. Eugénie L. Birch Amanda Lloyd Urban Development Housing
Article October 10, 2023 Planning for a Greener Urban Ukraine Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
Annual Report October 5, 2023 Advancing Urban Transformation: 2022-2023 Penn IUR Annual Report The 2022–2023 annual report for the Penn Institute for Urban Research documents the Institute’s research initiatives, publications, events, and instructional activities over the 2022–2023 academic year. Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
Article September 27, 2023 Powering the Slum II: Alternative Sources of Energy in Accra’s Informal Settlements Climate Change & Resilience Rapid Urbanization
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Scholar Qianyun Ji
Ph.D Candidate, Urban Planning and Design, Tsinghua University of China
Urban Development
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Fellow Anne Fadullon
Founding Principal, MAKE Advisory Services, LLC
Urban Development Housing + 1
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Affiliated PhD Student Ryan Gross
PhD Candidate, Statistics and Data Science Department, Wharton School
Urban Development State & Local Finance
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Fellow Lei Ding
Community Development Research Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Urban Development

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