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Feb 28 2024 Past Event Special Briefing: State Tax Cuts State & Local Finance

Podcasts January 25, 2024 Special Briefing: 2024 Fiscal Outlook for States and Cities For America’s states and municipalities, 2024 is likely to bring long-awaited relief from inflation and higher interest rates while presenting challenges—and not just because it’s a presidential election year. States, cities, and counties will have to contend with the imminent end of $350 billion in federal pandemic budget aid even as the revenue boom of recent years cools and the need for increased spending to ameliorate the risks of a changing climate put pressure on infrastructure spending. Join our panel of experts as they discuss strategies that state and local governments are adopting to meet these challenges. William Glasgall Susan Wachter Clarence Anthony Kim Norton Mark Ferrandino Eric Kim Mark Zandi State & Local Finance

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 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

Publication December 12, 2023 COP28 Advances Urban Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change & Resilience

Article November 13, 2023 SDSN Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance Looks Ahead to COP28 Climate Change & Resilience State & Local Finance

Oct 19 2023 Past Event Special Briefing: Rolling Out the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act—What’s Being Built and What’s in the Pipeline State & Local Finance

Fellow Anne Fadullon

Founding Principal, MAKE Advisory Services, LLC

Urban Development Housing + 1

Affiliated PhD Student Wilson Hernandez

PhD Student, Criminology, School of Arts & Sciences

Urban Development

Article September 11, 2023 Penn IUR Welcomes 2023-24 Fellows in Urban Leadership Penn IUR welcomes its sixth cohort into the Penn IUR Fellows in Urban Leadership program. Anchor Institutions

Fellow Lei Ding

Community Development Research Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Urban Development

Publication June 26, 2023 Penn IUR Mourns the Passing of Richard Ravitch Urban Development Anchor Institutions

Publication June 20, 2023 Policy Brief: Can Courts Resolve the Trilemma? State & Local Finance Anchor Institutions

Scholar David Schleicher

Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Article April 10, 2023 A Day in the Life of a Penn IUR Undergraduate Fellow: DC Trip Edition Anchor Institutions

Research Paper March 2, 2023 State of Finance for Nature in Cities 2023: Time to Assess - Summary for Local Policymakers Climate Change & Resilience State & Local Finance

Feb 28 2023 Past Event Nation's Metropolis: Book Talk and Discussion Urban Development

Feb 16 2023 Past Event Special Briefing: State & Local Budgets in Uncertain Times State & Local Finance

Article February 13, 2023 The Forum on Urban Informality Continues to Build a Community of Practice Urban Development

Podcasts January 19, 2023 The Future of Downtowns The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted an online Special Briefing on the Future of Downtowns.Our panel of experts included Howard Cure, director of municipal bond research, Evercore Wealth Management; Steven J. Davis, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, and professor of business and economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Tracy Hadden Loh, fellow, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking, Brookings Metro; Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore professor of real estate and professor of finance, Columbia University's Graduate School of Business; and Romy Varghese, politics editor, Bloomberg News. William Glasgall Susan Wachter Tracy Hadden Loh Howard Cure Steven J. Davis Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh Romy Varghese State & Local Finance

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