Zohran Mamdani continues filling out his administration because the early days of his mayorship unfold.
Dina Levy, the senior vice chairman of single household and neighborhood growth with the state’s Division of Houses and Group Renewal, will function commissioner of the Division of Housing Preservation and Growth, Gothamist reported. Mamdani’s spokesperson later confirmed the appointment.
Levy “is an skilled and fearless housing chief, and I do know that she’s going to battle to guard tenants and sort out our housing disaster head on,” the mayor mentioned in a press release.
Earlier than her most up-to-date position at HCR, she wore quite a lot of different hats on the company. Amongst her jobs, Levy oversaw the state’s mortgage company, managed housing grants and led a program upstate for the manufacturing of low-cost properties.
Beforehand, she held roles with the legal professional basic’s workplace and with the nonprofit City Homesteading Help Board.
In moving into the HPD’s prime publish, Levy will assume cost of an company with a $2 billion finances that might assist steer a few of Mamdani’s largest marketing campaign guarantees. HPD funds income-restricted housing developments and funds the preservation of current reasonably priced models.
Final yr, the company financed the event of greater than 13,000 reasonably priced models and the preservation of one other 15,000 models, in accordance with town. Mamdani is focusing on the development of 200,000 reasonably priced models within the subsequent decade.
At Mamdani and Levy’s disposal is the package deal of land-use modifications ushered in by Eric Adams’ Metropolis of Sure passage, which may allow bigger development and square-footage bonuses tied to reasonably priced unit quantity.
Levy will probably be filling the job vacated by Ahmed Tigani, who served because the performing commissioner of HPD earlier than Mamdani nominated him because the commissioner of the Division of Buildings.
Tigani took over at HPD in March after Adams tapped the previous commissioner, Adolfo Carrión, to step in because the deputy mayor of housing, financial growth and workforce after Maria Torres-Springer resigned in the course of the fallout from the Division of Justice’s corruption prices towards Adams.
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