NYC Housing Preservation and Development is the largest municipal housing preservation and development agency in the nation. It was established in 1978 and from then they had help thousands of people across the tri-state area. There in total about 3,000 employees work in NYC HPD. Most of them work at 100 Gold Street, New York which is also the where I work.
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They are responsible for:
- Financing the new construction and preservation of affordable housing
- Ensuring that the entire city’s housing stock meets the health and safety requirements of the City’s Housing Maintenance Code
- Monitoring the fiscal health and ongoing affordability of more than four thousand properties containing more than 84,000 units in our Asset Management portfolio
- Providing more than 35,000 households with rental subsidies (vouchers) that allow those families to afford a stable place to live in the private market
Commissioner Vicki Been
This lovely person is Ms. Been. She is the one in charge of NYC HPD. Her job has the commissioner is charged with creating and implementing Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Five-Borough, Ten-Year Plan, a bold initiative to create or preserve 200,000 affordable homes and apartments over 10 years. Been is a 1983 graduate of New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar. She clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the Southern District of New York and Justice Harry Blackmun of the Supreme Court of the United States. She and her husband live in Manhattan and have two children.
HERE IS A CHART OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE FOR EACH DEPARTMENT. THE HEAD SUPERVISOR WHO IS IN CHARGE OF MY SUPERVISOR IS JOSH C. HE IS THE HEAD OF GENERAL SERVICES.
Before I use to work in Administration but my boss move to a different department and now I work in General Services. General Services is where we take care of the employees of the agency. If they need to order supplies or need a new desk or if there a leak at one of the offices, general services is the department that takes care of that. From moving one department to another, I gain more responsible has doing clerk duties like answering the phones, file paperwork and ordering supplies if there is a big event. Also, I had taking training to learn how to use Mircosoft Excel which was excited. I never been to a training before. But on the first day of training, I realize that it’s a class where someone teaches you what the program is and how to use it properly.
DAY ONE: EXCEL 101. LEARN A COUPLE OF TRICKS AND SHORTCUT, PLUS LEARN HOW TO CHANGE UPPERCASE TO SENTENCE CASE. (BELIEVE ME, IT’S HARDER THAN YOU THINK).
After the training, I receive in two days about excel. I gain more responsible; for example creating a spreadsheet on how many volunteers will join a creating event that was happening during that month. I have learned that when you gain some experience on something, be ready to carry out some jobs, duties etc on what you learned.
Now if you heard or read some articles on NYC HPD. It is sometimes bad news. There is a big plan what HPD has created with mayor which is to bring more affordable housing all over NYC. This plan in some articles is called “controversial plan” because many people oppose it. The New York Times really does not like HPD at all. From my superior who work for HPD about 30 years of his life said that New York times is against what HPD is trying to do for the city, so HPD has a department that consists of writers and lawyers who look at writing pieces, articles and quotes etc. So the media, newspapers wont take things out of context. Here is a link of one of the articles that New York Times has about HPD: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/garden/in-community-gardens-a-new-weed.html?_r=0
But in my eyes, HPD is a good agency who is trying to help those who do not have a home and fight for people who have bad landlords. There are more that they do on a regular basis but I will be here forever explaining everything to you. So whenever you have time you can visit their website: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/index.page
