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Research Paper December 21, 2020 Evaluating the Benefits of a Streamlined Refinance Program Kristopher Gerardi Lara Loewenstein Paul S. Willen Housing State & Local Finance

Research Paper December 21, 2020 Mortgage Securitization in the Covid-19 Era: Introduction Laurie Goodman Susan Wachter Housing State & Local Finance

Research Paper December 21, 2020 GSEs: Their Viability as Public Utilities Susan Wachter Richard Cooperstein Housing State & Local Finance

Advisory Board Member Damien Dwin

Urban Development

Article November 18, 2020 Monitoring Recovery in Employment in New York City Losses in employment in selected industries in New York City between February 2020, just before the effects of the coronavirus pandemic were first felt in the city, and September 2020. Urban Development

Advisory Board Member Michael Tabb

Director, Corporate Real Estate, Americas, Google

Urban Leadership Awardee Marc H. Morial, Esq.

President & CEO, National Urban League

Urban Development

Article September 21, 2020 Geography of Fiscal Distress in America Where is COVID-19 hurting state and local budgets the most? To answer this question, Penn IUR and the Volcker Alliance have mapped data on state and local budgetary distress in the wake of COVID-19. State & Local Finance

Article September 21, 2020 Launch of Initiative for State and Local Fiscal Stability As the U.S. battles the worst pandemic in more than a century, the nation’s states, counties, cities, and towns are suffering a fiscal crisis of unprecedented magnitude. William Glasgall State & Local Finance

Fellow María Alicia Becdach

Architect and Urban Planning Consultant

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Scholar Raj Chetty

William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics, Harvard University Director of Opportunity Insights

Scholar Stefanie DeLuca

James Coleman Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, Johns Hopkins University

Scholar Sai Balakrishnan

Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley

Rapid Urbanization

Publication May 18, 2020 A Philadelphia Rideshare Story: An Investigation of Rideshare’s Impact on Transit In the last five years, the Philadelphia region’s four main transit modes (buses, subways, trolleys, and regional rail) have seen ridership declines coinciding with the growth of ridesharing services such as Lyft. Xiaoxia (Summer) Dong State & Local Finance

Fellow John Paul Farmer

Chief Innovation Officer and President, WeLink Cities

Urban Development Anchor Institutions

Publication April 17, 2020 Cities and Epidemics in History Dense urban populations have fostered and accelerated epidemics since at least the Plague of Athens in the fifth century BCE, and epidemics have in turn reshaped urban spaces for almost as long. David Barnes

Publication April 17, 2020 Moving from Uncertainty in a Rapidly Evolving Healthcare Crisis I like to distinguish between two kinds of risk, risk to which we can assign a probability, and risk for which we don’t have enough information to assign a probability. Urban Development

Publication April 17, 2020 COVID-19 and Public Health Preparedness: The Need for a Paradigm Shift Cities have long relied on public health infrastructure, albeit invisible, to maintain the health of their residents. This infrastructure is most effective work when it remains in the shadows. It stops contagion and the inevitable spread of illness before it happens, before it has the opportunity to transform a community in the many ways that are now so familiar to us all.

Publication April 17, 2020 CURA: Shipping a COVID-19 Innovative Solution COVID-19 hit Ecuador in early March. Critical-care hospitals were rapidly overcrowded and the death toll was staggering; the spine-chilling situation pushed me to think of ways to help. Mauricio Rodas Urban Development

Urban Leadership Awardee Mauricio Rodas

Visiting Fellow, Penn Institute for Urban Research Former Mayor of Quito, Ecuador

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