Senior Fair Housing Planner for the Division of Neighborhood Development and Stabilization

Job Description

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city’s housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

-We maintain building and resident safety and health.
-We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability.
-We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness, Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.

Your Team:

The Office of Neighborhood Strategies (ONS) is charged with ensuring that HPD’s development and preservation efforts are guided by meaningful community engagement and coordinated with public investments in infrastructure and services, as put forth in the Mayor's Housing Plan. ONS is composed of two divisions and a cross-divisional unit reporting to the Deputy Commissioner: -
The Division of Neighborhood Development & Stabilization (ND&S) leads the agency's commitment to neighborhood planning and strategic preservation through engagement with tenants, landlords, community leaders, and neighborhood stakeholders as we work to enable strong and healthy neighborhoods anchored by affordable housing. The Senior Fair Housing Planner is a member of this Division.

- The Division of Planning & Predevelopment (P&P) is central to developing and managing HPD's housing production pipeline from project proposal phases through the land use review and entitlement process, to ensure that HPD's investments contribute to building strong, healthy, resilient neighborhoods in all five boroughs.

- The Strategy and Operations Unit leads special ONS initiatives and provides essential technical, planning, and policy support to staff and the Deputy Commissioner of Neighborhood Strategies.

Your Impact:

As the Senior Fair Housing Planner for the Equitable Neighborhood Initiatives team in the Division of Neighborhood Development and Stabilization, you will work at the intersection of planning, policy, and public engagement. Our team’s work ensures that HPD investments leverage and incentivize other public and private investments to achieve broader community objectives that strengthen the social, economic, and physical health of neighborhoods. The Equitable Neighborhood Initiatives Unit and its sister team, Neighborhood Planning, partner with other HPD divisions, City and State agencies, local stakeholders, and community-based organizations to facilitate comprehensive, community-based planning processes; produce neighborhood housing plans and policies; and implement policy-related planning initiatives, including Where We Live NYC.

Your Role:

The Department of Housing Preservation & Development and the City of New York is an equal opportunity employer.
Under the direction of the Director of Equitable Neighborhood Initiatives, you will implement policy and planning initiatives in connection with the City’s obligation to affirmatively further fair housing.
In this role, you will help develop meaningful solutions that promote a more just and inclusive New York City. Alongside the team’s Senior Fair Housing Outreach Coordinator and Fair Housing Planner and HPD’s Division of Housing Policy, you will work at the forefront of some of the most challenging affordable housing policy issues in New York City to confront discrimination, segregation, and disparities in access to housing and opportunity.

In 2020, Where We Live NYC, the City’s first comprehensive fair housing plan, identified goals and strategies to address NYC’s barriers to fair housing. Your role includes ongoing implementation of initiatives from that plan, such as the City's equity-related mapping and planning tools and Racial Equity Reports for land use applications. HPD is currently developing the 2025 fair housing plan, which will include bold new strategies you will help implement. In addition, your role will include advancing and engaging the public on initiatives associated with the city’s Fair Housing Framework outlined in