How can cities adapt to rising climate risks and shifting infrastructure needs?

Christopher Boone (Dean, USC Price School of Public Policy) joins Richard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to discuss how sustainability and resilience are reshaping housing, cities, and policy. From rebuilding after California wildfires to lessons from London’s limited social housing, the wide-ranging conversation highlights the tradeoffs between affordability, risk, and durability facing communities across the US.

Highlights include:

• Why mentors are crucial to career development.
• The gap between data and difficult decisions to achieve sustainability goals.
  
• Fostering resilient communities by addressing jobs and health.
  
• Baltimore’s unique reversal on neighborhoods exposed to toxic releases.
  
• How communities relocate and rebuild after natural disasters and the implications for the recent Los Angeles
• Eminent domain and the importance of community engagement.
  
• Lessons in sustainability from abroad for US policy.

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Selma Hepp (Cotality) joins Richard K. Green (USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to unpack the third year of low home sales as affordability and insurance reshape demand across the US.

From Florida’s downturn to California’s inventory bump, the conversation explores local shifts and their contributions to national trends. Hepp also shares how new climate risk tools could change pricing and property insurance in the future.

Highlights include:

- Why home sales today look worse than in the aftermath of the Great Recession
- What makes Austin’s home value decline so unique
- Why the Midwest and New England lead the nation in home price growth
- How climate risk and insurance are impacting migration
- The growing role of small investors, especially in housing markets with constrained supply

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What’s driving today’s housing market shifts? How can economic principles help us navigate life and career choices?

Daryl Fairweather (Redfin) joins Richard K. Green (USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) and offers a glimpse at US housing markets before diving into insights from her new book *Hate the Game*. The conversation starts with Florida’s drop in home price appreciation, California’s middle-of-the-pack performance, and the Midwest’s rise before turning to Fairweather’s career journey from academia to tech.

Highlights include:

- Key factors in the Midwest and Rust Belt’s turnaround
- How insurance costs and HOA fees are changing the condo market in Florida and beyond.
- What economic exams for PhDs tell us about the kind of talent they seek.
- How economic tools like backward induction can help leverage promotions.
- Why winning a home buying bid could be worse than losing.

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