Committees & Initiatives
All members can participate directly or designate representatives from their companies to participate in Roundtable committees and task forces, which identify, analyze, and advocate for policy positions related to specific issue areas affecting the real estate community.
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SPAC
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RESEARCH
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RECPAC
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HSTF
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ED&I
Tax Policy Advisory Committee (TPAC)

The Roundtable’s Tax Policy Advisory Committee works to help lawmakers and federal officials understand how tax rules affect real estate activity, local communities, and jobs, and it promotes pro-growth tax reforms that facilitate sound, environmentally responsible real estate investment and development.

TPAC members include leading commercial real estate CEOs, CFOs, general counsel, and tax directors; senior partners from the country’s preeminent real estate advisory firms; and senior representatives from the major national real estate trade associations.

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Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee (SPAC)

SPAC focuses on a variety of environmentally and economically sustainable development policies that encourage high performance, energy-efficient green buildings, and progressive land use, such as brownfields redevelopment and transit-oriented development. The committee is also leading The Roundtable’s response efforts to government-mandated emissions disclosures

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Research Committee

The Research Committee identifies industry trends and tracks economic conditions to provide data that supports The Real Estate Roundtable's national policy agenda.​ They meet concurrently with the RECPAC.

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Real Estate Capital Policy Advisory Committee (RECPAC)

The Roundtable’s Real Estate Capital Policy Advisory Committee focuses on educating policymakers on real estate's important role in the nation's economy and advancing policy recommendations that encourage appropriate credit capacity and robust capital formation for responsible housing and real estate development and investment.  Through the engagement of principals from a broad range of key real estate investment, ownership, and financial services companies, the Committee tracks real estate credit and capital market conditions and considers balanced policy responses where challenges exist.

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Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF)

The Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) enhances the real estate industry’s ability to meet its current and future security-related challenges by analyzing developments in the industry's approach to emergency preparedness on physical threats such as terrorism, crime and climate change and on an increasing variety of cyber threats.

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Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee (ED&I)

The Roundtable’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion initiative aims to :

  • Expand opportunities for historically under-represented groups to participate in the industry, 
  • Develop an anti-discrimination, pro-inclusion federal policy agenda within The Roundtable’s traditional spheres of influence as an advocate on tax, capital markets, ESG, housing, infrastructure, and immigration matters;
  • Forge alliances between The Roundtable and civil rights and minority business organizations; and
  • Increase diversity among Roundtable membership, directors, contractors, and staff.

Supplier Diversity Initiative

  • The Real Estate Roundtable, along with other national trade organizations, created the Commercial Real Estate Diverse Supplier (“CREDS”) Consortium with the goal of increasing supplier diversity in the real estate industry.
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