Sessions
Adaptive Reuse for Affordable Housing
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Thu
Starting as a housing activist, Brendan McBride has worked in the affordable housing and community development field for over two decades with both nonprofit and for-profit developers, managing the development of housing for low and moderate-income households in a wide range of cities and towns in NY and NJ. He now serves as Associate Commissioner for New Construction at NYC’s Department of Housing, Preservation and Development, where he oversees the divisions that provide funding for the construction of new affordable housing for New Yorkers, including supportive housing and initiatives to permanently house formerly homeless individuals and families.
He has a BA in Anthropology from Amherst College and an MS in Urban Development and Management from the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.