SF Fed Blog
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Watch: Will Rising Rents Push Up Future Inflation?
Rising rents account for a significant portion of recent inflation. Estimates of how rent inflation typically responds to two leading indicators—current asking rents and current house prices—can help forecast the path of overall inflation for the next two years.
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Commercial Real Estate’s Bumpy Road to Recovery
The Supervision + Credit team’s quarterly First Glance 12L report notes an uneven recovery for commercial real estate in the fourth quarter of 2021, with historically strong performance for the industrial and apartment sectors, but an uphill battle for parts of the office sector.
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What We Learned from Businesses about Climate Resilience
To better understand how businesses are perceiving and adapting to a changing climate, the San Francisco Fed surveyed businesses throughout the nine Western states in our District. The wide range of responses included financial services, retail trade, and real estate businesses.
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What We Learned about the Impact of Climate Risk on Affordable Housing Development
In a continuation of our Understanding Climate Risk series, our Community Development team highlights takeaways from their recent roundtable discussions with community development professionals about the impact of climate risk on affordable housing development.
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David Jackson — Life, Career and Poetry
In honor of Black History Month, David Jackson, a Generalist and 17-year veteran of the SF Fed, explores his life, career, poetry, and inspirational Black figures.
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What to Know to Succeed at Your Internship
Your internship may take on a number of forms: from remote, to in-person, to some hybrid of both. But no matter how you perform your internship, we’re confident you’ll do a great job. We’ve compiled a few tips from former interns and their managers to help you to make the most of the experience from wherever you are.
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Supply Chain and Labor Shortages Dampen Q3
For the 12th District’s third quarter of 2021, it remained a tale of shortages: labor and supply chains. The Supervision + Credit team’s quarterly First Glance 12L report notes supply chain hurdles continued across the District, impacting the labor market and inventory prices.
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2021: A Look Back
Unreserved opportunity is the touchstone that guides our work at the San Francisco Fed, and this was evident in 2021. As we begin 2022, may we continue to learn from the challenges of the past year, as well as find inspiration in our successes.
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Introducing a Federal Reserve Series on Early Care and Education: Cost, Affordability, and Racial Equity
The pandemic highlighted the important role early care and education (ECE) plays in the economy. To dig deeper into some of the key issues in this sector, the Federal Reserve is releasing a series of articles that discuss the cost, affordability, and racial equity issues related to high-quality ECE.
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Our 2021 Year in Review
As 2021 draws to a close, we look back at how we’ve learned, adapted, and grown over the past year.