Moving toward the start of a fresh academic year, the outlook for the student housing industry keeps getting brighter. A testament to the industry's movement out of the pandemic is taking place at the InterFace Student Housing conference in Austin, where nearly 1,300 attendees have been able to gather in-person for the first time since April 2019. This year's event, which concludes today, is taking place at the JW Marriott downtown.

The student housing sector banded together like never before in the face of COVID-19 and truly worked as a team throughout the pandemic, with the ultimate goal of keeping students as safe as possible.

The sector's resilience during the pandemic and optimism regarding the year ahead were the driving discussion points during the conference's "Power Panel" on Wednesday, July 14, which brought together a consortium of high-level executives to discuss industry trends, their experiences with COVID-19 and the outlook for the upcoming academic year.

"The past 18 months have been a whirlwind of uncertainty," began moderator Peter Katz, executive director at Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap. "While our sector has been historically categorized as recession-resilient, we would all now claim it to be pandemic-resistant."

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