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As the COVID-19 crisis has spread across the country, it'sbecoming increasingly clear that restaurant workers, grocery storeclerks, delivery drivers, repair guys and medical workers aregetting hit especially hard.

"If you look around the country, now more than ever, people whohave the most needs are the ones repairing criticalinfrastructure," says Dr. Aaron Bernstein, USGBC board chair andalso the co-director of Harvard's Center for Climate, Health andthe Global Environment (Harvard C-CHANGE). "These are notnecessarily glamorous jobs."

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Leslie Shaver

Les Shaver has been covering commercial and residential real estate for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Multifamily Executive, Builder, units, Arlington Magazine in addition to GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.