Risk

Article February 26, 2025 Navigating Economic Uncertainty: Insights from Special Briefing From government downsizing and budget cuts to trade tariffs and mounting national debt, the economic landscape is fraught with uncertainty. Penn IUR and the Volcker Alliance hosted a Special Briefing on February 20, 2025 with leading economists, policymakers, and financial experts for a timely discussion. State & Local Finance
News July 8, 2024 Home Insurance Rates in America Are Wildly Distorted. Here’s Why. Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Ben Keys' paper about home insurance rates was featured in the New York Times. Housing
Sep 21 2023 Past Event Special Briefing: Recession? Soft Landing? . . . Impact on States and Cities State & Local Finance
Oct 29 2021 Past Event World Cities Day 2021: Adapting Cities for Climate Resilience Climate Change & Resilience
Mar 26 2021 Past Event #MUSAMasterClass featuring Dr. Paula Moraga: Disease Risk Modeling and Visualization using R Rapid Urbanization
Research Paper December 21, 2020 Analysis of the Proposed 2020 FHFA Rule on Enterprise Capital Laurie Goodman Edward Golding Jun Zhu Housing State & Local Finance
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.
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Faculty Fellow Allison Lassiter
Assistant Professor
Climate Change & Resilience
Research Paper February 7, 2018 Hotspot Cities: Identifying Peri-Urban Conflict Zones in the World’s Biodiversity Hotspots Chieh Huang Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard Zuzanna Drozdz Naxi Dong Climate Change & Resilience
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Fellow Aromar Revi
Co-Chair of Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IHHS)
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2
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Fellow Laurie Goodman
Institute Fellow, Housing Finance Policy Center Founder of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute
Housing
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Fellow Andrew Davidson
Founder and President, Andrew Davidson & Co. Founder, Financial Life Cycle Education Corp
Climate Change & Resilience Housing
Fellow Sheela Patel
Founder and Director, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3
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Book March 7, 2012 The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many are asking what, if anything, can be done to prevent large-scale disasters. Scott Gabriel Knowles Urban Development

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