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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 pars
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 da
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, retu
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 t
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, econom
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 m
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
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 occurri
"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)
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
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 th
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 ove
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 chall
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 ou
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 suppo
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
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
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 Dis
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 re
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
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
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
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 recommendat
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
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
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