Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuel will join President Joe Biden’s administration after the commander in chief tapped the Brooklyn legislator to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s New York and New Jersey regional office, the Daily News reports.
The post had previously been held by the likes of Mayor Bill de Blasio, and most recently, Trump-appointee Lynne Patton.
Ampry-Samuel, a Democrat representing District 41, which includes parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, and Brownsville, will assume the region’s top federal housing position — and will oversee the city with by far the most public housing in the US.
