Upcoming Webinar: COVID 19 & Cities: How Are They Coping?
COVID-19 & Cities: How Are They Coping?
Wed., April 15th | 1pm
Please join the BU Initiative on Cities for a webinar to learn about how cities throughout the country are managing the numerous municipal crises triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Graham Wilson, Director of the Initiative on Cities, will be joined by:
Bruce Katz, Founding Director at the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University and Distinguished Fellow at the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation.
Katherine Levine Einstein, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University and a Faculty Fellow at the Initiative on Cities.
Featured Speakers:
Bruce Katz will discuss a recently published white paper he co-authored, Saving Small Business: Emerging Typologies of Local Relief Funds. The authors analyze local small business emergency funds in cities, aiming to capture categories of funds, influence the development and growth of similar funds in other cities, and inform federal recovery efforts. The typology focuses around three points relevant to local decision-makers, including how the fund is capitalized, how quickly funding would be distributed, and which intermediaries are involved in distribution.
Katz also recently authored Needed: A Main Street Emergency Act and Supersize the Local Role.
From the outset of this pandemic, Katherine Levine Einstein, along with her colleagues Maxwell Palmer and David Glick, has been tracking the responses of mayors and other local government officials. She will discuss how mayors have reacted to COVID-19, what measures they have taken to protect their citizens, and how they have led throughout this outbreak.