Sessions
Plenary Session - The State's Role in Land Use
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Thu
Vicki Been is the Boxer Family Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, an Affiliated Professor of Public Policy of the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Faculty Director of NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Prof. Been returned to NYU in February, 2017, after serving for three years as Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development for the City of New York. In that capacity, she led the 2400-person agency in designing a comprehensive strategy for addressing the City’s critical need for affordable housing, financing the preservation or new construction of 62,500 affordable homes in just three years; securing the passage of the nation’s most rigorous yet flexible mandatory inclusionary housing program and changing the way the agency approached neighborhood planning to be more comprehensive and community-driven.
Professor Been, who has been on the faculty at NYU since 1990, focuses her scholarship on the intersection of land use, urban policy and housing. Under her leadership, the Furman Center has become the nation’s leading academic research center devoted to the public policy aspects of land use, real estate, and housing development, and was a recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2012.