• Vacant, First Deputy Commissioner
• Alexandra M. Sewell, Chief of Staff 
• Holly Leicht,   Development
• Vacant, Preservation Services
• Kimberly D. Hardy,Community Partnerships
• Laurie LoPrimo, Housing Operations
• Diane Lipset, Budget, Fiscal and Engineering Audit
• Joseph Rosenberg, Intergovernmental Affairs
• Bernard Schwarz, Administration
• Matthew Shafit, Legal Affairs

• Alexandra M. Sewell

  Alexa currently serves as the Chief of Staff and Associate Commissioner for Communications and Federal Affairs.  Alexa has been at HPD since November, 2006, and previously served as the Assistant Commissioner for Federal Legislative Affairs.  Prior to joining HPD, she served as professional staff on the Senate Appropriations Committee.  In her five years on the Committee staff, Alexa served the subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, and Science, Homeland Security, and VA-HUD and Independent Agencies.  Before coming to the Senate, Alexa worked for the National Alliance to End Homelessness and the Department of Housing and Urban Development as a policy analyst.  She received a B.A. from Georgetown University in history and government, and an M.P.P. from the University of Southern California in 1998.

• Holly Leicht

  Holly Leicht is the Deputy Commissioner for Development at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Prior to joining HPD in 2004, she was the Director of Planning for offsite projects at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.  She spent five years at the Municipal Art Society, first as in-house counsel and then as Director of Design, Planning and Advocacy. During her tenure at MAS, Holly directed Imagine New York, which engaged thousands of people in thinking about and discussing the future of the World Trade Center site and New York's neighborhoods in the aftermath of September 11th. She began her legal career as a Real Estate Finance associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.  She graduated cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law and magna cum laude from Yale College.
  

• Kimberly D. Hardy

Kimberly D. Hardy, Deputy Commissioner of Community Partnerships, graduated from North Carolina Central University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree Magna Cum Laude in Political Science. She went on to earn herlaw degree from Yale Law School. Ms. Hardy is admitted to practice law in the states of New York and New Jersey. Before Deputy Commissioner Hardyjoined HPD in June 1998, she served as Special Counsel to the New York Empowerment Zone Corporation. In 1994, Ms. Hardy was named Deputy Commissioner for Mediation at the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Prior to that, Deputy Commissioner Hardy was associated with the international law firm of LeBoef, Lamb, Greene & MacRae.

• Laurie LoPrimo

Laurie LoPrimo, Deputy Commissioner for Housing Operations, joined City government in 1986 at the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs. She worked at the NYC Human Resources Administration before joining HPD in 1992. At HPD, Laurie has held positions of increasing responsibility in HPD including providing permanent housing for the homeless, returning City-owned residential buildings to private ownership through rehabilitation and sales programs, and developing and coordinating programs designed to enhance the economic self-sufficiency of tenants in City-owned and City-assisted housing. Laurie's current oversight responsibilities includethe HPD Section 8 and Family Self Sufficiency programs and the Divisions of Alternative Management Programs, Property Management, and Architecture, Construction,and Engineering. She has experience in the disciplines of strategic planning,project management, personnel, budget, facilities management, and contract monitoring. Laurie has her BS degree from St John's University.

• Joseph Rosenberg

  Joseph Rosenberg, Deputy Commissioner for Intergovernmental Affairs, has been involved in the fields of housing policy and legislative relations for over 13 years. He previously served as HPD's Associate Commissioner of Intergovernmental Affairs, HPD's Assistant Commissioner of State Legislative Relations, Assistant Legislative Representative for the Mayor's Office of State Legislative Affairs, and the New York City Housing Authority's Legislative Liaison. Prior to entering the public sector, he was an associate with the law firm of Lurie and Nicholson. Mr. Rosenberg graduated from the State University of Stony Brook, with a degree in political science and earth and space sciences and earned his law degree from the University of Dayton School of Law. He is admitted to practice aw in the State of New York.

• Diane Lipset

  Diane Lipset, Deputy Commissioner for Budget, Fiscal and Engineering Audit, joined New York City government in 1973, as a management intern at the Human Resources Administration’s (HRA) Office of Budget and Fiscal. She held positions of increasing responsibility within that organization, obtaining a solid background in various aspects of city financial management. When she left HRA in 1991, she was serving as the Deputy Administrator for the Agency’s Office of Budget. In that year she joined HPD as the Assistant Commissioner of Fiscal. In July 1994 her duties were initially expanded to include the management of HPD’s Budget Office and then later Engineering Audit. She has also handled a variety of other financial management related functions during her tenure at HPD. Ms. Lipset graduated from the State University of New York at Albany, where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She went on to earn a Masters of Public Administration from Baruch College.

• Bernard Schwarz

  Bernard Schwarz, Deputy Commissioner of Administration, joined HPD in Administration in 1977. He has held positions of increasing responsibility within Administration at the Housing Department ever since. He graduated from St. Johns University.

• Matthew Shafit

  Matthew Shafit, General Counsel and Deputy Commissioner of Legal Affairs, graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton and Harvard Law School. He joined HPD as a Deputy General Counsel in September 1986 and became head of the Office of Legal Affairs in May 1995. Before coming to HPD, Deputy Commissioner Shafit worked for Rosenman & Colin, a private law firm.