Sessions
Fair Housing: Moving Forward
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Thu
Lucy Joffe is the Assistant Commissioner for Housing Policy at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (“HPD”). In this role, she oversees HPD's Policy Development & Special Initiatives, Fair Housing Policy & Investments and Research & Evaluation teams as well as the newly-launched Center for Research on Housing Opportunity, Mobility, and Equity (HOME). Lucy previously worked as the Executive Director of Regulatory Compliance at HPD, an attorney-advisor in the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as a legislative aide to New York City Council Member Dan Garodnick. She also taught elementary and middle school English as a Second Language at P.S./I.S. 50 in East Harlem as a Teach for America corps member and worked in several Detroit public schools as an Americorps member. Lucy earned a J.D. from the New York University School of Law, an M.S. for Teachers from Pace University and a B.A. in sociology with a political science minor from the University of Michigan. She is co-chair of the Board of Trustees of La Cima Elementary School in Brooklyn.