Housing partners honored.Time Warner Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Richard D. Parsons Parsons, city (1990 pop. 11,924), Labette co., SE Kans.; inc. 1871. It is a shipping point for dairy products, grain, and livestock. Manufactures include ammunition, wire and paper products, plastics, and appliances. served as special guest host of the Housing Partnership Development Corporation's recent gala Recognition Luncheon.Hundreds of affordable housing advocates and executives of companies and banks involved in the financing, developing and construction of affordable housing, attended the event at the Mandarin Oriental New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , to recognize the men and women who launched the Housing Partnership and contributed to its success. Honorees at the Recognition Luncheon included former Mayor Ed Koch, David Rockefeller David Rockefeller, Sr. (born June 12, 1915) is a prominent American banker, philanthropist, world statesman, and the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child and grandchild, respectively, of the prominent philanthropist John D. , Fred Wilpon Fred Wilpon, a graduate of the University of Michigan is a baseball executive with the National League New York Mets of which he became a part-owner in 1980. Wilpon served as president of the team between 1980 to 2002, as Chief Executive Officer since 1980 and as Chairman of , Deborah Wright Deborah C. Wright is President and CEO of Carver Bancorp, the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank. This is the U.S.'s largest publicly traded African-American operated bank, with locations in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. and Kathryn Wylde. The Housing Partnership serves as New York City's primary intermediary for development of new, affordable and workforce homeownership housing on both public and private sites. The Housing Partnership was established in 1982 to bring the public and private sectors together to address the City's shortage of affordable housing. Today, 23 years later, what began as New York City's flagship affordable homeownership development organization, remains one of the largest and most successful nonprofit affordable housing intermediaries in the nation. The Housing Partnership is responsible for the development of more than 18,000 new affordable units and the renovation and transfer to private ownership of more than 8,000 formerly city-owned apartments. As a partner in fulfilling Mayor Bloomberg's ambitious 53 billion housing plan, the largest such initiative in 20 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Housing Partnership works with the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Department of Housing Preservation and Development to produce about 1,200 affordable housing units each year. The Housing Partnership currently' has 4,000 units that are either in construction or predevelopment. "Affordable housing, especially in the form of home ownership, is vital to the economic and social fabric of New York City," said Dan Martin, president and CEO of the Housing Partnership Development Corporation. "The Housing Partnership is proud to play an ongoing role in the creation of affordable housing. As we approach a quarter of a century in this endeavor, we feel it is appropriate and important to recognize the men and women of vision who established the Housing Partnership and were crucial to its success in achieving its objectives." Shaun Donovan, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, said, "The strides we've made in housing and community development in New York City are a tribute to the strong foundation laid by the Housing Partnership and the honorees." |
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