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Election Talks: Breaking Down CA Prop 2

Lusk Perspectives - October 22, 2020 20:31 - 32 minutes
Radio host and fourth-generation Angeleno Larry Mantle and policy experts Gary Painter and Richard Green provide an overview of CA Proposition 21 followed by a discussion on their opposing views of supporting or opposing the initiative for local rent control. If approved, it allows local governm...

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Prop 15 Discussion with KPCC Host Larry Mantle

Lusk Perspectives - October 16, 2020 19:43 - 31 minutes
Larry Mantle (Host, AirTalk, KPCC) hosts a discussion regarding California Proposition 15. If passed on November 3rd, this will generate an estimated $6.5 billion to $11.5 billion annually for local governments and K-14 public education by creating a "split roll" property tax system that increas...

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The COVID Economy: Where Are We Now?

Lusk Perspectives - October 13, 2020 20:28 - 50 minutes
Diane Swonk (Chief Economist, Grant Thornton) discusses where we’ve been and possibly where we’re going as the economy braces for more impacts from COVID-19 with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center). Tracing the line back from January 2020 to the Fall, she overlays her concerns about COVID’...

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Analyzing Mortgage Market Risks

Lusk Perspectives - September 29, 2020 17:48 - 38 minutes
Laurie Goodman (Co-Director, Housing and Finance Policy, Urban Institute) sits down with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center) to discuss all things mortgage market including her success and key takeaways from analyzing asset classes in the 2008-2009 financial crisis, how she and her team cr...

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How Credit Scores Are Built and Used

Lusk Perspectives - September 17, 2020 23:19 - 43 minutes
Amy Cutts (President, AC Cutts and Associates LLC) details how credit scores are built, what factors and variables may contribute to how they are evaluated, how credit scores from FICO and others have evolved, and the limits to the formulas and data used in building the models that provide credi...

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Investing in the Age of COVID

Lusk Perspectives - September 03, 2020 16:11 - 58 minutes
Nela Richardson (Principal, Investment Strategist, Edward Jones) outlines the factors to consider in determining investment strategy and evaluating the economic outlook as the US continues to navigate impacts from COVID-19. Richardson covers how management of COVID-19 will shape the recovery, th...

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State and Local Budgets

Lusk Perspectives - August 26, 2020 17:42 - 56 minutes
Lois Takahashi (USC Price Sacramento) moderates a discussion on how COVID-19 is impacting state and local budgets with Tracy Gordon (Urban Institute) and Carolyn Coleman (League of California Cities). Gordon outlines the nationwide declines in revenue are dramatic and could take up to 10 years f...

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Racial Justice and Economics: A Crucial Pairing

Lusk Perspectives - August 24, 2020 21:13 - 1 hour
William Spriggs, Professor in, and Former Chair of, the Department of Economics at Howard University and Chief Economist for AFL-CIO Richard Green, Director and Chair of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and Chair of the Department of Real Estate Development Dana Goldman, Interim Dean, USC...

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ESG Investments and Real Estate

Lusk Perspectives - August 13, 2020 17:10 - 51 minutes
Bonnie M. Wongtrakool (Global Head of ESG Investments, Portfolio Manager, Western Asset Management) discusses the state and the future of ESG (environmental, social, governance) investments with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate). Wongtrakool delivers relevant definitions ...

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Changing Typologies and Construction Innovations in Housing

Lusk Perspectives - July 29, 2020 18:36 - 52 minutes
Rick Holliday (CEO, Co-Founder, Factory OS), Janet Stephenson (Head of Building Platform Sales, Katerra), and Lucio Soibelman (Chair, USC Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) join host Mary Lynne Boorn (Associate Professor, USC Price) in a discussion on changing typologies a...

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Fireside Chat with Lusk Leadership

Lusk Perspectives - July 24, 2020 17:10 - 57 minutes
Lusk Chairman Emile Haddad (CEO, Five Point Holdings) and Vice Chairman William A. Witte (CEO, Related California) join Richard Green (Director, Lusk Center for Real Estate) in a fireside chat covering a broad range of topics. The seasoned CEOs deliver insights on how COVID-19 has impacted their...

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Property Values and the Future of Cities

Lusk Perspectives - July 23, 2020 16:59 - 1 hour
Christopher Mayer (Co-Director, Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, Columbia Business School) sits down with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to deliver a presentation detailing how real estate valuation is changing, especially in relation to the economy as a whole, an...

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Financing Perspectives - What’s Changed, What’s Here to Stay

Lusk Perspectives - July 15, 2020 18:35 - 52 minutes
Bird Anderson (Executive Vice President, Homebuilder Banking, Well Fargo Commercial Real Estate) provides updates and observations on the state of the current commercial real estate and homebuilding market. Anderson points out that despite record high unemployment, the market is strong, owing in...

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International Relations and Global Market Overview

Lusk Perspectives - July 09, 2020 22:05 - 45 minutes
Colin Barrow (Investment Manager, former Leader of Westminster Council) sits down with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to detail the state of affairs in Europe as both Great Britain and the European Union begin to navigate into COVID-19 recovery. Barrow points out that ...

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Property Technology and Real Estate Markets

Lusk Perspectives - June 25, 2020 22:08 - 56 minutes
Connie Chan (General Partner, Andreesen Horowitz) discusses how property technology, finance technology, and venture capital is impacting real estate during COVID-19 and beyond with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center in Real Estate). They cover a broad range of topics including the long-te...

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How to Safely Open Your Office

Lusk Perspectives - June 18, 2020 22:13 - 57 minutes
Darius Lakdawalla (Director of Research, USC Schaeffer Center) joins Richard Green (Director, Lusk Center for Real Estate) to outline the value for universal screening for COVID-19, as well as the cost benefits and practical approach to pooled testing applied in businesses and schools. Richard G...

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Single Family Forbearance and Multifamily Lending

Lusk Perspectives - June 11, 2020 23:31 - 55 minutes
David Brickman (CEO, Freddie Mac) joins Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to deliver analysis on the state of US single family housing, multi-family housing, and GSEs (Government Sponsored Enterprises). Brickman points out that while the economic contraction has been dram...

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The Shape of the Recovery with Torsten Sløk

Lusk Perspectives - June 04, 2020 22:03 - 56 minutes
Torsten Sløk (Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank Securities) joins Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to outline the three different factors that play into the future of finance, including the virus curve flattening, financial markets stabilizing, and the ultimate shape of the...

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Reflections on the Market with Mark Zandi

Lusk Perspectives - June 03, 2020 04:13 - 45 minutes
Mark Zandi (Moody’s Analyics) sits down with Richard Green about COVID-19’s impacts that are still to come. Green asks about Zandi’s views on office, retail, and housing real estate markets. Zandi and Green also share thoughts on how the supply chain might be reevaluated and modified, what emplo...

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Commercial Real Estate Market Overview

Lusk Perspectives - June 02, 2020 17:29 - 55 minutes
Industry leaders Lisa Reddy (Prologis), David Dollinger (Dollinger Properties), Stanley Iezman (American Realty Advisors), Rachel Elias Wein (WeinPlus) join Lusk Director Richard Green to provide analysis and updates and analysis on commercial retail, industrial, and office spaces.

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Home Builders: Today and in the Future

Lusk Perspectives - June 02, 2020 17:25 - 55 minutes
Scott B. Laurie (President and CEO, The Olson Company) and Adrian Foley (President and COO, Brookfield Residential) join Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center) to discuss the state of the home building market, how COVID-19 has impacted the process of purchasing a new home, and how the industr...

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Antibody Testing with Neeraj Sood

Lusk Perspectives - June 02, 2020 17:21 - 40 minutes
Neeraj Sood (USC Price Vice Dean for Research) discusses early findings of his ongoing LA County antibody study with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center). Sood points out that so far the study indicates that still more COVID-19 numbers are going unreported, even within this particular study...

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Piecing The Housing Puzzle Back Together

Lusk Perspectives - June 02, 2020 17:18 - 55 minutes
Guest: John Burns | CEO, John Burns Real Estate Consulting John Burns joins Richard Green to share proprietary tools he and his team developed during the Great Recession to monitor how the current crisis has unfolded. Burns illustrates that apartments are showing signs of weakness, but with a ...

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With Special Guest Raphael Bostic

Lusk Perspectives - May 11, 2020 17:09 - 45 minutes
Raphael Bostic (President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) and Richard Green (Director, Lusk Center for Real Estate) discuss the unprecedented impact that COVID-19 has made on the US and how the Federal Government has taken unprecedented steps to meet that challenge. Bostic emphasizes t...

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Impact of the Pandemic on the Economy - Part II

Lusk Perspectives - May 11, 2020 17:09 - 30 minutes
Richard Green, Director and Chair of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and Chair of the Department of Real Estate Development The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy presents Price Talks: Policy in a Pandemic, a virtual series examining policy challenges around the COVID-19 pandemic. USC P...

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A Long Time Until the Economic New Normal

Lusk Perspectives - May 11, 2020 17:09 - 56 minutes
Alec Levenson discusses how organizations should temper their expectations and prepare for the path to economic recovery. Levenson points out modifications to in the gig economy, labor market regulations, and face-to-face work will undoubtedly require behavioral adjustments and changes in produc...

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Understanding the CARES Act With Claudia Sahm

Lusk Perspectives - May 11, 2020 17:09 - 1 hour
Claudia Sahm offers her views on the current recession as well as options for a few paths forward. Sahm also lays out the timeline of congressional legislation and federal actions thus far in response to COVID-19, and she discusses how sees those actions in comparison to the Great Recession of 2...

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Vulnerabilities of the Mortgage System

Lusk Perspectives - May 11, 2020 17:09 - 54 minutes
Richard Green (Director, Lusk Center in Real Estate) moderates a panel discussing vulnerabilities of funding and processes in today’s mortgage system as those inefficiencies may impact homeowners, mortgage holders, and renters during COVID-19. Laurie Goodman (Urban Institute), Ted Tozer (Milken ...

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Ivy Zelman on Housing

Lusk Perspectives - May 11, 2020 17:08 - 51 minutes
Expert analyst Ivy Zelman (Zelman & Associates) delivers a presentation on her latest data regarding changes in the housing market and COVID-19. Her in-depth analysis includes reflections on the similarities between the current downturn and the 2008 recession aftermath, with a few key difference...

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Impact of the Pandemic on the Economy

Lusk Perspectives - May 11, 2020 17:08 - 31 minutes
Richard Green, Director and Chair of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and Chair of the Department of Real Estate Development The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy presents Price Talks: Policy in a Pandemic, a virtual series examining policy challenges around the COVID-19 pandemic. USC P...

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