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Affordable Housing in NYC – An Ongoing Crisis

January 6, 2014 7:06 AM·

Lunch with the League: Thursday January 9, 2014, 11AM – 2PM

Affordable Housing in NYC – An Ongoing Crisis

Everyone wants it. The question is how to get it.

PLEASE NOTE NEW MEETING LOCATION

see below

Featuring Guest Speaker RuthAnne Visnauskas
RuthAnne Visnauskas was appointed Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development in September, 2013. Prior to taking on this role, she was HPD’s Deputy Commissioner for Development, and was responsible for overseeing the annual housing production goals of Mayor Bloomberg’s New Housing Marketplace Plan (NHMP) to finance the creation and preservation of 165,000 units of affordable housing by the end of the 2014 fiscal year.Ms. Visnauskas began working at HPD in 2006, initially serving as Executive Director of Large Scale Planning before being promoted in 2008 to Assistant Commissioner for New Construction Finance where she led several agency initiatives including programs to develop middle-income housing. Prior to her appointment as Deputy Commissioner, she served as Associate Commissioner for Preservation with a focus on creating financing strategies and programs to aid in the acquisition and rehabilitation of distressed multifamily properties throughout the City.

Prior to joining HPD, Ms. Visnauskas was the Director of Housing for Clinton Housing Development Company. She received a B.A. in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Urban Planning from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. Ms. Visnauskas lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

New Location:

Teamsters Local 237 (middle of the block)

216 West 14th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues.

The number 1, 2 and 3 trains stop at 14th Street. (7th Avenue line)

The A, C and E trains stop at 14th Street.  (8th Avenue line)

Buses # 20, and 7, stop on 14th street.

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