Mayor de Blasio names four to key housing positions
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Saturday announced four appointments to leadership positions on his housing team, pledging to expand access to affordable housing and upgrade the city’s aging public housing stock.
The mayor named Shola Olatoye as chair of the New York City Housing Authority, with Cecil House serving as the authority’s general manager. The mayor also appointed Vicki Been as the commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and Gary D. Rodney as president of the Housing Development Corporation.
De Blasio laid out a range of strategies to expand affordable housing, including launching inclusive housing programs that serve both low-income New Yorkers and the middle class, developing strategies to leverage new capital to spur housing production and preservation, and working across city agencies to boost the effort.