13 Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today (Jan. 14, 2021) New research suggests that the COVID-19 economic crisis will cause twice as much homelessness as the Great Recession, reports Marketwatch. Dollar General announced that it will pay its employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Wall Street Journal. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry. COVID-19 will cause twice as much homelessness as Great Recession, researchers say “Over the next four years, the COVID-19-related recession is expected to cause chronic homelessness to increase some 49% nationwide, according to new research from the Economic Roundtable, a non-profit urban research organization based in California. The homelessness crisis is expected to peak in 2023, researchers found, with an additional 603,000 working-age adults without a place of their own to sleep.” (