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DePaul/ULI Chicago Sentiment Report Spotlights Importance of DEI
Key leaders in Chicago’s commercial real estate industry believe that initiatives focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), one of the most common and appropriate topics of conversation in business and commercial real estate today, must be designed to drive meaningful, lasting change and create opportunities in markets where companies operate.
According to the Chicago 2022 Mid-Year Sentiment Report by The Real Estate Center at DePaul University and Urban Land Institute Chicago District Council, CRE professionals say their firms thoroughly embrace DEI with more than 77% either having a formalized DEI program (48.7%) or, in the absence of a formalized program, have enacted policies and initiatives to improve DEI within the firm (28.8%).
“The importance of DEI is reflected in the prevalence of the discussion,” said Molly McShane, CEO, The McShane Companies. “The importance of diversification, equity and inclusion is clear. With it, we are more creative and we perform better because it adds more quivers to our bow.”
She added, “The path to get there is a lot less clear.”
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