Although New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has touted his new housing commissioner, Vicki Been, as a progressive tenants’ advocate, landlord and tenant attorneys said they aren’t expecting radical changes from the agency.
Before being tapped to lead the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) on Feb. 8, Been had been the director of NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, a group that has a reputation among lawyers for both landlords and tenants for focusing on data and analysis rather than ideology.
