Donovan is Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
To that end, the President-elect has selected Shaun Donovan to be his Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Mr. Donovan, a former Comissioner of Housing Preservation and Development in New York City, will come to Washington with the innovative ideas and new perspective needed to help the thousands of hard-working American families whose livelihoods have been threatened during this tough economic time.
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Will bring to the job: Extensive experience with housing issues, learned in the pressure cooker of New York City, where he has been heading the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Since taking the position in 2004, he has focused on the ambitious goal of building more low- and moderate-income housing in New York City while navigating the web of interests, including landlords, developers and lenders, who all have a stake in the outcome. He also has experience in HUD, where he served as deputy assistant secretary for multifamily housing in the Clinton administration, managing a multibillion-dollar housing subsidy program that served 1.7 million people annually.
Is linked to Mr. Obama by: His work on the Obama campaign. Mr. Donovan took a leave of absence from his job in New York, with the mayor’s permission, to campaign for Mr. Obama.
