Dr. Sam Chandan is Director of the Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he leads the school's real estate and urban research initiatives, industry and policy engagement activities, and MBA and undergraduate real estate programs, ranked #2 and #3 respectively among business schools by US News. Prior to joining the faculty of Stern's Finance Department in 2022, Dr. Chandan was the Silverstein Chair and academic dean of the NYU SPS Schack Institute. Widely cited in the press, his research interests span the fields of real estate finance, housing policy, and infectious disease epidemiology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society for Public Health, and Global Chair of the Real Estate Pride Council. Among his private sector roles, Dr. Chandan was previously Global Chief Economist at Real Capital Analytics (RCA) and Chief Economist at Reis, now part of Moody's Analytics. For more information, please visit samchandan.com
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Thu Apr 11
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time
New York Hilton Midtown - Level 2, Murray Hill Suite
From Competitiveness to Well-Being: Changing Priorities for Cities?
This panel will explore the challenges and opportunities cities face with a focus on the U.S./North American context from a variety of different perspectives—economic, social, and governance. Many cities are incredibly desirable and expensive places to live. However, they are struggling with perceptions about safety, quality of life, underlying and persistent inequities, the economic health of city centers, and balancing budgets. What are the major shared challenges cities are confronting and how are they grappling with them? What new opportunities does this moment present? New York City has returned to pre-Covid unemployment levels (as of September 2023) but is grappling with a deepening affordable housing crisis, strained municipal budgets, and long-term climate risks, among other challenges. Is there an emerging playbook for addressing this moment? How is NYC handling these challenges? And, more optimistically, where are the opportunities?
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