Sessions
The Latest in Financing Housing for the Homeless
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Wed
Adaptive Reuse for Affordable Housing
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Thu
Molly Wasow Park is the DHS First Deputy Commissioner, and a long-time leader in City government. At DHS Molly is part of the senior leadership team overseeing all agency operations and implementing the Turning the Tide plan, including the creation of 90 new homeless shelters across New York City.
Prior to joining DHS in September 2019, Molly spent three years as the Deputy Commissioner for Development at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), where she had primary responsibility for the housing production goals of the Housing New York Plan and related pre-development work.
Molly briefly left City government in 2014 to serve as the Chief Operating Officer of Settlement Housing Fund, where she expanded her affordable housing expertise by overseeing Settlement's development activity, as well as coordinating all operational needs of a growing not-for-profit organization. From 2010 to 2014, Molly served as HPD's Deputy Commissioner of Budget, Fiscal, and Performance Management, including oversight of one of the nation’s largest Section 8 programs. A graduate of Amherst College, Molly holds a Master's in Public Policy from the university of California - Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy.