About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

- We maintain building and resident safety and health
- We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
- We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.

Your Team

The Administrative Hearing Officer will be a key member of the Division of Adjudications, within the newly centralized Office of Compliance & Risk Management (CRM). The Division of Adjudications consists of the Appeals and the Mitchell-Lama Hearings Units.

- The Appeals Unit conducts federally mandated informal hearings and reviews, which are the mechanisms through which Section 8 and other HPD administrated rental subsidy program participants/applicants may appeal decisions made by the programs in HPD’s Division of Tenant & Owner Resources (DTOR). DTOR administers rental subsidy programs such as Housing Choice Voucher (HCV), Project Based Voucher (PBV), Moderate Rehab Section 8, Moderate Rehab Single Room Occupancy (SRO), and Continuum of Care (CoC)-Shelter Plus Care (SPC) and NYC 15/15. which provide funding to eligible low-income families for rental assistance toward decent, safe, and affordable housing in a neighborhood of their choice.

- The Mitchell-Lama Hearings Unit tries and settles cases arising from matters lodged by managing agents of housing complexes governed by Mitchell-Lama rules and regulations and helps ensure that building owners and managing agents uphold their obligations. The Division of Housing Supervision, within the Office of Asset & Property Management (APM), oversees the Mitchell-Lama program, which includes approximately 45,000 units, provides affordable rental and cooperative homeownership opportunities to families with moderate and middle incomes.

Your Impact

The hearing officers help the City continue to combat the affordable housing crisis. The result of these cases ensure that units are occupied by appropriate parties and helps ensure that building owners and managing agents uphold their obligations.

Your Role

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Administrative Hearing Officer conducts hearings to determine whether occupants of buildings under the City’s supervision of the Mitchell-Lama program can continue to live on the premises. This officer also assists the New York City Law Department in Article 78 hearings and other litigation. This position may also require the hearing officer to conduct Emergency Housing Services hearings and other special projects.

Key Responsibilities

As an Administrative Hearing Officer, you will:
- Conduct administrative hearings and render final decisions in all landlord/tenant issues (except non-payment proceedings) relating to Mitchell Lama housing.
- Conduct other administrative hearings, such as Emergency Housing Services, as required.

Preferred Skills

HPD seeks a team-oriented, judicial, fair-minded attorney, who can work independently and possesses strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities, as well as the following:
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write clearly and communicate with others with respect and empathy
- Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions and balance multiple critical priorities
- Ability to manage multiple projects with various deadlines simultaneously
- Exceptional interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
- Discretion and judgment concerning confidential information
- Basic knowledge of landlord tenant law, with experience with housing court

Please provide a cover letter as part of your application.

AGENCY ATTORNEY - 30087

1. Admission to the New York State Bar; and either "2" or "3" below.
2. One year of satisfactory United States legal experience subsequent to admission to any state bar; or
3. Six months of satisfactory service as an Agency Attorney Interne (30086).
Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.
In addition to meeting the minimum Qualification Requirements:
To be assigned to Assignment Level (AL) II, candidates must have one year of experience at Assignment Level I or two years of comparable legal experience subsequent to admission to the bar, in the areas of law related to the assignment. To be assigned to AL III candidates must have two years of experience in Assignment Levels I and/or II or three years of comparable legal experience subsequent to admission to the bar, in the areas of law related to the assignment.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.