Director, Leveraged Preservation Programs for the Division of Preservation Finance

Job Description

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation & 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.
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Your Team:

The Office of Development (OOD) leads the agency’s effort to create and preserve affordable housing as a critical part of Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness in collaboration with other HPD offices as well as other city, state and federal agencies. The OOD is comprised of seven divisions that administer a range of programs. These divisions include New Construction Finance, Special Needs Housing, Building and Land Development Services (BLDS), Homeownership Opportunities and Preservation, Preservation Finance, Compliance and Enforcement and Housing Incentives.
The Division of Preservation Finance administers multiple financing programs including the Multifamily Housing Rehabilitation Loan Program (HRP), the Participation Loan Program (PLP), the Housing Preservation Opportunities Program (HPO), The Capital Partnership for Affordable Renovations Program (CPAR), the Lead Hazard Reduction and Healthy Homes HUD Multifamily Program (HUD MF), the Third Party Transfer Program (TPT), Multi-Family Preservation Loan Program (MPLP) il, Neighborhood Pillars Program (“Pillars”) and the LIHTC Portfolio Preservation (Year 15) Program. These programs facilitate the financial and physical viability, as well as affordability of privately-owned multi-family and single-family buildings throughout New York City. The Division plays a key role in implementing the overall preservation strategy for HPD’s Office of Development in support of the Mayor’s Blueprint.

Your Impact:

The Division of Preservation Finance seeks an experienced professional with strong leadership and management abilities to be Director of HPD’s Leveraged Preservation Programs. Under the supervision of the Executive Director, you will be one of two Directors overseeing the agency’s Leveraged Financing Programs which include a range of financing solutions and programs that pair tax exemptions or tax exemptions and public subsidy with private funding to meet project needs and preserve affordability. Programs include the Participation Loan Program (PLP), the Multi-Family Preservation Loan Program (MPLP), Housing Preservation Opportunities Program (HPO), Neighborhood Pillars (Pillars), The Capital Partnership for Affordable Renovations Program (CPAR), and Third Party Transfer (TPT).

Your Role:

In your role as the Director, you will lead a highly competent staff of project managers and will work with developers, syndicators, lenders and other key entities to evaluate and approve proposed preservation strategies, evaluate changes to project ownership, assess requests for tax exemptions to determine project feasibility, determine rehabilitation work, and assess acquisition proposals. As the Director, you will have primary responsibility for continuing program policy development and for ensuring that transactions are completed on a timely basis. You will represent the Division at relevant meetings to convey the department’s position on portfolio preservation strategies and other related issues and will perform other duties necessary for the success of the program including coordination with other City and State partners as well as presenting at conferences. As Director, you will interact with and manage relationships with a variety of internal and external public and private development partners, including the Housing Development Corporation, the City's Office of Management and Budget, banks, tax credit syndicators, for and not-for-profit developers and other national development intermediaries. This position suppor