Please join Darryl C. Towns Commissioner/CEO of NYS Homes and Community Renewal (HCR)
at a presentation and discussion of
Governor Cuomo's Budget and Reform Message for Building a New New York
Friday, January 20, 2012
1:30 PM
Schenectady City Hall 105 Jay Street Schenectady, NY 12305
Parking: General parking and parking for people with disabilities on streets surrounding City Hall. ADA accessibility: The facility is accessible to persons with disabilities and equipped with appropriate bathrooms and telephones. Directions: City Hall is located on Jay, Liberty and Franklin streets. Transportation: CDTA Bus Lines
What does he make? $140k? There are thousands of big gov con artists on the teet.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Darryl C. Towns, Commissioner/CEO of NYS Homes and Community Renewal
Darryl C. Towns, Commissioner/CEO of NYS Homes and Community Renewal
Darryl C. Towns was selected by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to serve as Commissioner/CEO of NYS Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), which includes all the state's integrated housing and community renewal agencies and programs.
Prior to his appointment, Commissioner/CEO Towns served in the NYS Assembly for 18 years, where he chaired the Banking Committee and served on Education, Health, Rules and Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry committees.
Towns also served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Mass Transit and in 2007 was elected chair of the State Legislature's Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus.
During his 18 years in the New York State Assembly, Commissioner Towns worked closely with not-for-profit housing agencies and community development corporations to revitalize neighborhoods and build and preserve affordable housing for his constituents.
He sponsored legislation to improve access to affordable housing for disabled veterans, and was a strong advocate of projects that provided affordable housing units for rentals and homeownership, including a long-awaited mixed-use development that helped revitalize a once desolate section of the Fulton Street commercial strip in Cypress Hills.
Commissioner Towns also secured grant funding for the development of the Cypress Hills Community School, Brooklyn's first green school building.
He also sponsored legislation to battle predatory lending, subprime lending and the myriad of mortgage and refinancing scams that plagued communities across New York State. He also supported mortgage foreclosure prevention services in the most impacted communities, and authored legislation to institute mandatory settlement conferences.
Commissioner/CEO Towns also sponsored legislation to support community and economic development efforts, including a measure to revise and expand the State Charter Deposit Program. The measure encouraged the State to place funds in local community banks in order to support and promote local economic activity. He also sponsored legislation to create the New York State Community Development Financial Institutions Program, to ensure that capital is available for small businesses.
Towns attended City University of New York's Medgar Evers College and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He also served in the US Air Force for five years.
Commissioner/CEO Towns is the son of veteran Congressman Edolphus "Ed" Towns. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Karen Boykin-Towns, and their daughters, Jasmine and Trinity.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) consists of all the State's major housing and community renewal agencies, including, The Affordable Housing Corporation, The Division of Housing and Community Renewal, Housing Finance Agency, State of New York Mortgage Agency, Housing Trust Fund Corporation and others.
Organizing these agencies under a single leadership and management structure has created new efficiencies and allowed for better coordination of the state's resources. Similar and complimentary programs are now aligned and working together, reducing costs, red tape and duplicative efforts while increasing the effectiveness of the state's housing and community renewal programs.
HCR organizes programs in a logical manner into four groups - Finance and Development, Housing Preservation, Community Renewal and Professional Services.
Finance and Development - aligns all programs that fund the development of affordable housing, including Low Income Housing Tax Credit programs, tax exempt and taxable bond finance programs, single family loan and Capital awards programs.
Housing Preservation - includes all the programs that maintain and enhance the state's portfolio of existing affordable housing. This includes the Office of Rent Administration, the Section 8 program, Asset Management and the Weatherization Assistance Program.
Community Renewal - includes all the programs geared toward community and economic development, job creation and downtown revitalization, including the NYS Community Development Block Grant Program, NY Main Street program, Affordable Housing Corporation, Neighborhood Stabilization Program and the Neighborhood and Rural Preservation programs.
Additionally, the office of Professional Services includes all administrative and support services, including Communications, Legal affairs, Administration, Fair Housing, Policy Development, and Accounting and Treasury.
Last Updated: 11/03/2010
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Executive Staff •Darryl C. Towns, Commissioner/CEO •Michael Skrebutenas, Chief Operating Officer (Interim) •Matthew Nelson, President, Office of Community Renewal •Marian Zucker, President, Office of Finance and Development •Forrest R. Taylor, President, Office of Professional Services •Christopher Browne, Deputy Commissioner for Policy and Communications •Wanda Graham, Director, Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity •Michael Friedman, Senior Vice President and Director of the Mortgage Insurance Fund •George Leocata, Senior Vice President, SONYMA Single Family Programs •Dominic Martello, Vice President, AHC Affordable Home Ownership Development Program
Last Updated: 10/24/11
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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