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Jerilyn Perine
International Affairs Building, Room 1321
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3231
jp2784@columbia.edu
Biography:
In October 2006, Ms. Perine was named Executive Director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a research and policy analysis not for profit organization focused on supporting public policy that improves access to affordable housing and sound land use planning principles. www.chpcny.org
An urban planner with 30 years of experience in housing and community development in New York City, Ms. Perine was appointed by both Mayor Giuliani and Mayor Bloomberg to lead America's largest municipal housing agency. She held this position from 2000 through 2004. She led her own consulting company, Block by Block, LLC, which worked to structure affordable housing programs and community development strategies in Liverpool and Belfast.
Author of Mayor Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan that provided $3 billion over five years to preserve and create 65,000 units of affordable housing. With demand for housing increasing and availability of buildable sites decreasing, the Housing Plan provides financial incentives to New York City's private market to create affordable housing with below cost financing and tax relief coupled with a strategy of rezoning and targeted financial assistance to redevelop derelict industrial areas.
Under Mayor Giuliani, Ms. Perine designed and managed programs designed to return tax foreclosed residential property to local, private ownership and to prevent future cycles of abandonment. These programs were the recipient of the Innovation in Government Award from the Kennedy School and Pioneer Institute in Massachusetts.
She successfully developed and negotiated with HUD, a plan to save small buildings purchased through HUD's 203(k) program which was plagued by scandal. She negotiated a settlement of a long-standing legal battle over the City's community gardens, which preserved gardens and allowed more than 3000 units of affordable housing construction to proceed.
Ms. Perine established and chaired the Mayor's Neighborhood Investment Panel which includes housing professionals from New York's banks, philanthropic organizations, research institutions, academia and the not for profit and for profit development industry in an effort to restructure the agency's programs and monitor the effectiveness of the Housing Plan.
Ms. Perine has lectured extensively at conferences in the U.S. and Europe and continues to collaborate with housing practitioners and academics in Germany, Australia, the UK and Northern Ireland. She has coauthored with Dean Michael Schill (UCLA Law School) Reflecting on NYC's Housing Policy: 1987-2004, an article that was included in Neighbourhood Renewal and Housing Markets:Community Engagement in the US and UK, edited by Harris Beider and published through the University of Birmingham, England in 2006 by Blackwell Publishing.
Affiliations and Awards include:
-Steering Committee for Australia's International Cities and Towns Centre Conference from 2002 to the present -Board of Directors Project Find; a not-for-profit organization providing housing and services to homeless and low income elderly adults from 2004 to 2007 -Advisory Group of HCCI, a not for profit focusing on housing and community development programs and services in the Harlem community. -Board of Trustees, National Housing Conference -Member of the Board, New York Housing Conference
Recipient of a variety of professional recognition awards including the Andrew J. Heiskell award from the Enterprise Foundation, Woman of the Year from the Assoc. of Building Owners, the Roger Starr Public Service Award from the Citizen Housing and Planning Council and the Award for Career Achievement in Housing from the New York State Affordable Housing Assoc. as well as awards from a variety of not for profit housing organizations including Common Ground, The St. Nicholas Preservation Corp., The Highbridge Community Development Org. and H.E.L.P. USA.
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