HPD in 2022: A Look Back

Happy New Year! As we start 2023, we’re reflecting on the last year and what we’ve accomplished together. Thanks to our dedicated team of public servants who worked tirelessly to house our neighbors, strengthen neighborhoods, and keep homes safe across the city.

We welcomed Commissioner Adolfo Carrión Jr., a long-time public servant who knows first-hand how affordable housing can help families like his climb up the economic ladder.

“If you can lift yourself out of your circumstances and look to the possibility of a different world, you have the burden of responsibility to share that vision with the next generation,” HPD Commissioner Adolfo Carrión Jr.

We released Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness, which aims to breakdown silos in government, reduce administrative burden, and focus more on the lived experience of New Yorkers.

HPD Commissioner Adolfo Carrión, Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz, Homeless Advocate Shams DaBaron, DSS Commissioner Gary Jenkins, HDC President Eric Enderlin, NYCHA Chair Gregory Russ at the Housing Blueprint announcement.

We connected nearly 10,000 New Yorkers to affordable housing through Housing Connect, homeless placement services, and supportive housing referrals with the Department of Social Services in Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22). We also invested a record $9 million to help families achieve their dream of homeownership.

Thomas speaks to what his new home at Nevins Street means to him.

We conducted over 700,000 housing inspections in FY22, completing emergency repairs for more than 42,000 apartments, restoring heat, addressing lead or mold, repairing self-closing doors, and fixing collapsing ceilings.

Welcoming a new class of Housing Inspectors!

We strengthened fire safety outreach and enforcement through the City’s “Keeping Homes Fire Safe” campaign, reaching over 60,000 New Yorkers with life-saving fire safety information and enhanced coordination with FDNY.

This flyer is also available in multiple languages on the HPD website.

We celebrated 10 years of Building Opportunity, which leverages the City’s multi-billion-dollar affordable housing engine to ensure M/WBE and non-profits can build capacity, access capital, gain development experience, and strengthen and diversify the industry.

Key players in advancing HPD’s Building Opportunity initiative: former Deputy Mayor Vicki Been, Deputy Commissioner AnnMarie Hendrickson, SBS Executive Director Ophelia Gabrino, HPD Commissioner Adolfo Carrión Jr., Former HPD Executive Deputy Commissioner Baaba Halm, Former HPD Chief Diversity Officer Alnisha Maniaci, and Former HPD Commissioner Mathew Wambua.

We supported voucher holders, expanding our housing mobility work through Community Choice and issuing over 2,300 Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) and leasing over 700 EHV units in 2022.

Arnetta shares her experience finding a new home with an Emergency Housing Voucher.

We opened milestone projects like the 90 Sands hotel conversion and 425 Grand Concourse Passive House, and we look ahead to unlocking more housing in this #CityofYes with plans like Willets Point, which will ultimately bring 2,500 affordable homes and a soccer stadium to Queens.

HPD Commissioner Adolfo Carrión Jr., Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz, and DCP Commissioner Dan Garodnick at the announcement of Willets Point Phase II.