Housing Connect Project Manager, Division of Housing Opportunity
4 weeks ago
Job Description About the Agency: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (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 Housing Access and Stability (“HAS”) consists of the divisions of Housing Opportunity, Tenant and Owner Resources, Housing Stability, Budget and Program Operations, and Program Policy and Innovation. The mission of the office is to ensure fair, efficient, and transparent access to affordable housing. The Office provides subsidies, placement services, and tools that connect New Yorkers to affordable housing and ensures vulnerable households in subsidized housing have the support they need to be safely housed. Housing Access is committed to expanding housing choices, affirmatively furthering fair housing, and stabilizing the financial health of buildings. The Division of Housing Opportunity & Program Services ensures that HPD’s affordable housing is made available through fair, transparent, and accessible programming. Developers creating affordable housing are required to offer many types of units through an open lottery process on NYC Housing Connect and fill other units through a placement process for households in the City’s shelter system. Housing Opportunity & Program Services (HOPS) administers the housing lottery and homeless placements programs and crafts policy and procedures to ensure that these programs offer equal opportunity to all applicants and affirmatively further fair housing. Your Impact: As a Housing Connect Project Manager, you will work to ensure the fair and equitable distribution of affordable rental and homeownership opportunities. You will help to ensure that affordable housing serves the households it is intended to serve. You will help to make the process of accessing affordable housing inclusive and protective of applicants with housing instability, poor credit, justice involvement, disabilities, language access needs, complex income scenarios, and other barriers to housing. You will provide assistance to developers and applicants, alike, in navigating regulatory and statutory requirements to achieve successful lease ups of affordable housing. Your Role: Your role as a Project Manager in the Housing Connect program includes educating developers, marketing agents, and applicants on the Housing Connect lottery system; ensuring that developers and marketing agents adhere to the policies, procedures, and requirements for marketing and tenant selection, which are outlined in the HPD/HDC Marketing Handbook; and interacting with applicants and the public to provide assistance in the housing search and application process. NYC Housing Connect 2.0: You will be required to track and monitor the timely lease-up or sale of assigned projects administered through HPD’s online NYC Housing Connect system. You will work to ensure that marketing agents and developers adhere to the HPD Marketing Handbook during the unit designation and lease-up or sales process. Meetings: You will be required to chair or co-chair marketing and compliance meetings with developers and marketing agents. You will prepare the agendas and put together packages of program-related and project-specific materials for everyone attending these meetings. Public events and communication: You will be required to attend community outreach events where you will represent the Housing Connect program, handing out or presenting materials and answering questions about the affordable housing lottery process. You will also interact with housing applicants through the Housing Connect phone hotline and other day-to-day communications to ensure they have the information they need to navigate their housing search. Field work: You may be required to commute to various locations within the city, in order to perform on-site applicant file reviews, supervise the data entry of paper lottery applications, meet developers/marketing agents at a post office to open a P.O. Box to receive paper lottery applications, among other functions. Your Responsibilities: Facilitating marketing and compliance meetings; reviewing developers’ marketing plans to ensure compliance with HPD’s Marketing guidelines Monitoring lotteries and reviewing lottery logs throughout the tenant selection period to ensure that applicants are processed in the appropriate order, taking into consideration preference categories and disability set asides. Reviewing applicants’ files and required documentation to ensure they meet income and other eligibility standards Answering the Housing Connect hotline to assist applicants with any questions they may have about the lottery process by phone Reviewing and drafting correspondence in response to applicant inquiries, concerns, complaints, appeals Qualifications A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in "1" above. Additional Information The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
-
New York, New York, United States City of New York Full timeJob DescriptionAbout the Agency:The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (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 healthWe create...
-
Housing Connect Project Manager
1 month ago
New York, United States City of New York Full timeCompany DescriptionJob Description About the Agency: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (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...
-
Housing Connect Project Manager
4 weeks ago
New York, United States City of New York Full timeCompany DescriptionJob Description About the Agency: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (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...
-
Housing Specialist
2 weeks ago
New York, United States Nazareth Housing Full timeOverview: Nazareth Housing Inc. is a community-based organization committed to promoting housing stability and economic mobility among low-income families and individuals in New York City. We provide homelessness prevention services, emergency family shelter, supporting housing, and urgent needs assistance. Our vision is to empower families and...
-
New York, United States City of New York Full timeJob Description About the Agency: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the citys 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...
-
Co Founder Proptech Startup Housing Matters
1 week ago
New York, United States Housing Matters Full timeCompany DescriptionHOUSING MATTERS: Urban populations continually expand, and as they do, housing demand skyrockets. A lack of affordable housing has reached a crisis point in many American cities. Fourty-two million households now allocate more then 1/3 of their income towards housing (highest since 2011). The solutions, while obvious, can be difficult to...
-
Co Founder Proptech Startup Housing Matters
1 week ago
New York, United States Housing Matters Full timeCompany DescriptionHOUSING MATTERS: Urban populations continually expand, and as they do, housing demand skyrockets. A lack of affordable housing has reached a crisis point in many American cities. Fourty-two million households now allocate more then 1/3 of their income towards housing (highest since 2011). The solutions, while obvious, can be difficult to...
-
Vice President of Housing
4 days ago
New York, United States Community Housing Innovations Full timeJob DescriptionJob DescriptionJOB SUMMARYThe Vice President of Housing is the lead in the development, implementation, and administration of housing programs including emergency shelter, transitional and permanent supportive housing, and housing subsidy and rent assistance programs. The VP is the program lead in contract administration and develops scopes of...
-
Vice President of Housing
1 month ago
New York, United States Community Housing Innovations Full timeJob DescriptionJob DescriptionJOB SUMMARYThe Vice President of Housing is the lead in the development, implementation, and administration of housing programs including emergency shelter, transitional and permanent supportive housing, and housing subsidy and rent assistance programs. The VP is the program lead in contract administration and develops scopes of...
-
Vice President of Housing
4 weeks ago
New York, United States Community Housing Innovations Full timeJob DescriptionJob DescriptionJOB SUMMARYThe Vice President of Housing is the lead in the development, implementation, and administration of housing programs including emergency shelter, transitional and permanent supportive housing, and housing subsidy and rent assistance programs. The VP is the program lead in contract administration and develops scopes of...
-
Housing Specialist
1 month ago
New Orleans, United States Housing Authority of NO Full timeJob DescriptionJob DescriptionSUMMARYUnder the supervision of the assigned HCV Program Manager, the Housing Specialist is responsible for delivering superior customer service when performing a variety of case management functions related to the HCV/Section 8 program. In addition, the Housing Specialist performs a wide range of activities related to...
-
Housing Specialist
4 weeks ago
New Orleans, United States Housing Authority of NO Full timeJob DescriptionJob DescriptionSUMMARYUnder the supervision of the assigned HCV Program Manager, the Housing Specialist is responsible for delivering superior customer service when performing a variety of case management functions related to the HCV/Section 8 program. In addition, the Housing Specialist performs a wide range of activities related to...
-
New York, United States NYC Careers Full time**J-51 Analyst for the Division of Housing Incentives**: - Apply**J-51 Analyst for the Division of Housing Incentives**: - Agency: HOUSING PRESERVATION & DVLPMNT - Posted on: 05/03/2024- Job type: Full-time Location NYC-ALL BOROS - Title Classification: No exam required Department Tax Credits & Tax Incentives - Salary range: $70,000.00 - $70,000.00-...
-
New York, New York, United States City of New York Full timeJob Description Supportive/Affordable Housing and Services coordinates the development of supportive housing, master leasing, senior affordable housing and other related services. Staff work closely with other city agencies (OMB, HPD, DOHMH, DFTA, Health and Hospitals and others), State agencies (OMH, among others) and with community partners, such as...
-
Housing Specialist- Rrh
2 weeks ago
New York, United States Jericho Project Full time**Position: Housing Specialist, RRH** **Location**:New York, NY **Reports to**:Assistant Director **Hours**:Full-time, 40 hours per week, some evenings/weekends required **About Jericho Project** Jericho Project is a nationally acclaimed nonprofit ending homelessness at its roots by enabling homeless individuals and families to attain quality housing,...
-
Marketing and Communications Manager
4 days ago
New York, United States Housing Works Full timeHousing Works requires employees working in our Health Services division to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless approved for a legal accommodation. If you need an accommodation for any reason, including related to this job requirement, please contact Human Resources. Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living...
-
Housing Navigator
4 days ago
New York, United States Jericho Project Full time**About Jericho Project** Inspired by the belief that transformation can occur in every individual, Jericho Project was founded in 1983 to help New York City address and end homelessness among men, women, and families. Jericho Project steadfastly works to advance its mission by creating a community that inspires individual change, fosters sustainable...
-
Housing Ambassador Coordinator
1 month ago
New York, United States City of New York Full timeCompany DescriptionJob Description About the Agency: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (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...
-
Housing Ambassador Coordinator
4 weeks ago
New York, United States City of New York Full timeCompany DescriptionJob Description About the Agency: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (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...
-
Housing Ambassador Coordinator
4 weeks ago
New York, United States City of New York Full timeCompany DescriptionJob Description About the Agency: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (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...
