De Blasio aides meet with big developers on housing
Dana Rubinstein
Today at City Hall, two top aides to Mayor Bill de Blasio met with some of the city's biggest developers to talk about affordable housing.
At 11 a.m. today in the Committee of the Whole room at City Hall, de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, Alicia Glen, and his commission for the department of housing preservation and development, Vicki Been, met with about 30 members of the real estate industry, including some of its most prominent members: Extell founder Gary Barnett; Tishman Speyer president and co-CEO Rob Speyer, who's also chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York; Durst Organization chairman Douglas Durst; Brooklyn developer George Klein; and BFC Partners co-owner Don Capoccia.
The meeting lasted about 90 minutes and came the day after aides met with smaller-time developers, according to someone who was at today's meeting, and more than a week after they met with affordable housing advocates.
Today, they talked about de Blasio's goal to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing in 10 years time, more than Mayor Bloomberg achieved in 12.
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