Infrastructure

Classroom

The Avenue

What should communities do when a school closes for good?

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Wilmington

The Avenue

How Wilmington, Del. is revitalizing vacant land to rebuild community trust

Laura Semmelroth

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Building facade

Housing Markets & Finance

Thoughtful design can create high-quality affordable multifamily housing

Hannah Hoyt and Jenny Schuetz

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

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Testimony

The rent is still due: America’s renters, COVID-19, and an unprecedented eviction crisis

Monday, June 15, 2020

Reports

April 25, 2020, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Kitchen staffs preparing meals for frontline workers at Pagu in Cambridge. Pagu is one of the first restaurant partners of Off Their Plate (OTP). OTP is a brainchild of Natalie Guo, Harvard Medical student, providing relief for two hard hit industries, Health care and restaurant industries. OTP, working with World Central Kitchen has expanded in 9 cities, working with more than 50 restaurants and 110 health care facilities across the nation and fundraised 3 million dollars since March. The organization pays restaurant $10 a meal to produce for frontline workers. The National Restaurant Association estimates that 3 million industry employees have already lost their jobs, and restaurants across USA will take a $225 billion sales hit through May . No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

Workforce Development

To protect frontline workers during and after COVID-19, we must define who they are

Adie Tomer and Joseph W. Kane

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

housing

Housing Markets & Finance

Strategies for increasing affordable housing amid the COVID-19 economic crisis

Ingrid Ellen, Erin Graves, Katherine O’Regan, and Jenny Schuetz

Monday, June 8, 2020

construction site

Report

Parking requirements and foundations are driving up the cost of multifamily housing

Hannah Hoyt and Jenny Schuetz

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Union Station

U.S. Metro Areas

As the capital region’s population ages, public policies need to adjust

Jaclene Begley, Leah Brooks, Brian J. McCabe, Jenny Schuetz, and Stan Veuger

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

apartment under construction

Housing Markets & Finance

Flexible zoning and streamlined procedures can make housing more affordable

Hannah Hoyt and Jenny Schuetz

May 19, 2020

Blog Posts

dc housing

The Avenue

The Washington, DC region needs more housing, and satellite data can tell us where to build

Leah Brooks, Genevieve Denoeux, and Jenny Schuetz

June 4, 2020

Middle school reading teacher Shayna Boyd prepares for the start of remote teaching due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in her home office in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. April 8, 2020. Picture taken April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan O'Brien.

The Avenue

COVID-19 shows that America’s broadband plan is still in beta

Monday, May 18, 2020

Louisville Ky

The Avenue

How Louisville, Ky. is leveraging limited resources to close its digital divide

Angela Siefer and Bill Callahan

April 16, 2020

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Events

Panel Discussion | Housing, externalities, technology and the long run for global real estate

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM IST

New Delhi, India

Japan’s role in Asia’s connectivity: Infrastructure finance and digital governance

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

Development Seminar: Is housing an intractable problem?

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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Related Books

THE HOUSING CHALLENGE IN EMERGING ASIA

Edited by Matthias Helbe and Naoyuki Yoshino

2016

Connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia

By ADBI

2015

Transcontinental Infrastructure Needs to 2030/2050

By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD

2013

Experts

Joseph W. Kane

Senior Research Associate and Associate Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

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Adie Tomer

Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

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Blair Levin

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

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Multimedia

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi listens to House Majority Whip James Clyburn and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. as they hold a news conference to unveil a $760 billion infrastructure spending bill proposed by House Democrats at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Podcast Episode

Will House Democrats’ infrastructure plan yield results?

Adie Tomer and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional Democrats speak to reporters after their meeting on infrastructure with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC134195ACF0

Podcast Episode

Can the administration and Congress move forward on $2 trillion infrastructure plan?

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Staff with the California Department of Water Resources watch as water is released from the Lake Oroville Dam.

Podcast Episode

Building America’s water workforce

Joseph W. Kane and Fred Dews

Friday, July 13, 2018

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