She’s a “1 percenter” in charge of affordable housing for the poorest of the 99 percent.
Mayor de Blasio’s new commissioner for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development is living large in a swanky West Village town house financed by millions in sweetheart loans from her former employer, New York University.
Vicki Been, 57, was appointed head of HPD on Saturday at a press conference announcing the city’s new housing officials.
“No city can thrive when luxury penthouses look over neighborhoods where parents have to panic about whether their kids can make it home from school safely,” said Been, an NYU law professor.
Been lives with husband Richard Revesz, NYU’s former law-school dean who was pulling down a $1 million-plus salary, in a West 11th Street building valued at $9 million. The couple owed the university $5.7 million in 2010, according to tax records. The debt jumped to $6.42 million in 2011.
Revesz made headlines last summer when it was revealed NYU gave the family a loan for a $2 million vacation home in Connecticut. NYU would not disclose the interest rate.
Messages to NYU, Been and Revesz were not returned. De Blasio announced other appointments — Shola Olatoye as Housing Authority chair and Gary D. Rodney as director of the Housing Development Corp.Lia