| Notes |
Vicki Been, who had been a frontrunner to take over the city Planning Department, will instead take over the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. From Mayors Ed Koch through Michael Bloomberg, the agency has been at the forefront of building and restoring affordable housing in the city.
While it may not have been her first choice, the Housing Department post is still a plumb assignment for Been, who has spent two decades at NYU running the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.
She will be expected to deliver on the mayor’s ambitious campaign promise of to create 200,000 homes affordable to low- and middle-income New Yorkers. |