HOUSING PARTNERSHIP TRANSITION UPDATE
Molly Wasow Park Joins the NYC Housing Partnership as President & CEO
Ron Moelis, left, NYC Housing Partnership Board Chair, with Molly Wasow Park, the Partnership's new President & CEO and Jamie Smarr, outgoing President & CEO.
The Board of Directors of the Housing Partnership Development Corporation has named Molly Wasow Park President & CEO.
Ms. Park is a former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services, the nation's largest municipal social service agency. Prior to that, she served as First Deputy Commissioner at the City's Department of Homeless Services and held senior positions at the City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Over the last 25 years Ms. Park has worked in many facets of the affordable housing space and tackled some of the City's biggest problems, including development finance, oversight and expansion of housing voucher programs, management of crises such as Superstorm Sandy response, COVID, and the influx of asylum seekers, and many initiatives to improve access to housing for the lowest income New Yorkers.
Ron Moelis, NYC Housing Partnership Board Chair, and Molly Wasow Park, new President & CEO
For more than 40 years, the Housing Partnership has helped expand affordable housing across New York City and beyond through innovative public-private partnerships, creating and preserving over 100,000 low and moderate-income housing units in the five boroughs, leveraging over $11.1 billion in private financing and utilizing more than $550 million in subsidies for affordable housing.
