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“People are focused on occupancy, but I think they need to be more granular,” Cindy Estis Green said at ALIS this week.

There has been a shift in demand for rental housing due to demographic and other changes in our society.

Hotel experts at ALIS debated the start of the next recession with some seeing smooth sailing through 2019 and others expecting the downturn to hit by the end of the year.

The economic forecast at CREW San Diego this week gave industrial and office assets the highest grades for 2019.

In recent years, hotels have expanded with several new brand announcements. Now, hotel chains are cutting back.

According to the opening economic session at NMHC Apartment Strategies Outlook Conference, tariffs are the biggest concern and will be one of the triggers that will push us into a recession.

Experts at ALIS said that the government shutdown was “not insignificant,” estimating it produced a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars and impacted GDP growth.

The New York Building Congress's 2019 Policy Agenda promotes capital spending, encourages public-private partnerships and focuses on major government projects.