Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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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 wildfires.
- Eminent domain and the importance of community engagement.
- Lessons in sustainability from abroad for US policy.