Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named 24 people to his transition committee on housing. Here are the real estate people who made the cut.
Mamdani started the week by naming more than 400 people to 17 different committees. The housing-related group includes nonprofit housing organizations, union reps, Yimby groups, religious leaders, tenant groups, private real estate developers and multifamily lenders.
Those representing the private side include:
- Real Estate Board of New York Chair and Two Trees Management CEO Jed Walentas
- L+M CEO Lisa Gomez
- M Squared COO Carolee Fink
- Merchants Capital vice chair Matt Wambua
- New York State Association for Affordable Housing President and CEO Carlina Rivera (a nonprofit that represents affordable housing developers)
The representatives from the private sector are largely affordable housing developers, though obviously REBNY represents various sectors in the industry. The committee doesn’t include leaders from the landlord groups that mostly represent rent-stabilized owners, but it does include Rafael Cestero, CEO of the Community Preservation Corporation, who has been sounding the alarm about mounting distress in the city’s stabilized housing stock…