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May 19, 2020

Romel Pascual on CicLAvia’s 10 Years of Reimagining Public Streets

Romel Pascual reflects on the importance of building Angeleno’s confidence in using their streets, the responsibility of drivers to share the road safely, as well his hope that CicLAvia can bring people joy and together again once shelter-in-place is lifted.

May 11, 2020

Reimagining Health Care Delivery: Kaiser Permanente’s Jodie Lesh

Jodie Lesh shares her work on the intersection between economic stability, healthy communities, and Kaiser Permanente’s initiatives to enhance access, affordability, and outcomes through innovation and human-centered design.

May 11, 2020

Kilroy Realty's Sara Neff: How Might Office Buildings Change Post-Pandemic?

Sara Neff shares her insight into the challenges, solutions, technologies, and trends emerging in commercial office spaces to accommodate public health requirements and restore trust in shared workspaces.

May 11, 2020

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer & League of CA Cities’ John Dunbar on California’s Buckling City Budgets

San Diego Mayor, Kevin Faulconer, and board president of the California League of Cities and Mayor of Yountville in Napa County, John Dunbar (pictured), share how drastically city revenues have collapsed as shelter-in-place mandates have frozen entire sectors of the US economy.

May 4, 2020

WorkingNation’s Art Bilger & Jane Oates on COVID-19 Jobs Recovery & Workforce Transition

WorkingNation’s Founder and CEO, Art Bilger, and President, Jane Oates, on their organization’s mission—to inform and educate on the changing nature of the economy, the future of work, and the skills gap—to address what was once a looming, but is now a pressing, nationwide unemployment crisis.

May 4, 2020

Martin Muoto’s SoLa Impact Fund Investments in Housing and South LA Business Center Undaunted by COVID-19

SoLa Impact Founder and Managing Partner Martin Muoto shares his organization's mission to: "Earn good returns, while targeting 'really tough neighborhoods,' often with properties plagued by many vacancies and a lot of deferred maintenance, renovate them and create decent, affordable housing.

May 4, 2020

The Los Angeles Coalition’s Insight into a Strategic LA Economic Recovery

LA Coalition's Michael Kelly argues that it is essential for policymakers to understand the interactions of three major components—economic specialization, human capital formation, and institutional factors— to determine how well a regional economy will cope; and that cross silos collaboration be the rule to address the complex challenges of the post-COVID “new economy.”

May 1, 2020

San Diego Council President Georgette Gómez on 'Pandemic Through the Lens of Equity and Inclusion'

San Diego City Council President, Georgette Gomez, on the critical value of providing accessible and factual information and resources to the city’s diverse constituents during this unprecedented public health crisis.

May 1, 2020

Carl Muhlstein's Candid Assessment of Real Estate Trends Post-COVID

Carl Muhlstein offers his outlook for what lies ahead in real estate and shares his insight on the political tug-of-war between landlords and renters in the struggle for relief and protection from City Hall.

May 1, 2020

LA Building & Safety’s Osama Younan on New Digital Practices During Pandemic 

General Manager of the LA Department of Building and Safety (LADBS) Osama Younan on the shock his agency underwent and the department’s continuing transition away from in-person counter service to online systems to expedite city processes and provide physically distant essential service.

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