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Abstract: 

This panel explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the geography of work, resident migration, civic boundaries, economic structure, education, transportation networks, supply chains, and exposed fissures in municipal revenues streams. Panelists share their perspective on the most enduring impacts of the pandemic on U.S. communities and their insight on what this foreshadows for a way forward. Pascal St. Gérard is Senior Director and Western Regional Manager at Fitch Ratings. Tracy Hadden Loh is a Fellow with the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking at Brookings Metro, where she integrates her interests in commercial real estate, infrastructure, racial justice, and governance. Arva Rice is President & CEO of the New York Urban League (NYUL). This article is based on a panel by the same title presented at the 2023 Annual Conference of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, held May 16-19, 2023.

Keywords: Municipal Leadership; Distrust of Public Institutions; Return-to-Office (RTO); Commercial Real Estate Market Disruption and Repricing; Adaptive Reuse; Urban Cost of Living

Affiliations:  1: Fitch Ratings; 2: Brookings; 3: New York Urban League.