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Chris Simi December 8, 2011 UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy

NYC Dep't of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD): IT Proposal IT Solutions to Improve Productivity. Chris Simi December 8, 2011 UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy PP 290: IT and Public Policy. About HPD. Approximately 2,500 employees spread among several major divisions:

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Chris Simi December 8, 2011 UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy

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  1. NYC Dep't of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD): IT ProposalIT Solutions to Improve Productivity • Chris Simi • December 8, 2011 • UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy • PP 290: IT and Public Policy

  2. About HPD • Approximately 2,500 employees spread among several major divisions: • Development: finances new construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing units • Enforcement: enforces NYC Housing Maintenance Code • Legal: provides legal support for Development, litigates Housing Code violations • Asset Management: oversees continuing affordability of HPD-financed units • Architecture and Engineering: approves plans, performs construction monitoring and inspections of HPD-financed work In the process of implementing Mayor Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan, a 14-year program to build or rehabilitate 165,000 units of affordable housing.

  3. 3 Phases of a Project Pre-Closing Construction/ Rehabilitation Completion Regulatory Period

  4. REVIEW PROCESS GIS Unit Dep't of Environmental Protection Asset Management Dep't of Finance Dep't of Buildings Production Tracking Databases Assessor's Office Legal Lexis Nexis

  5. Property Taxes andWater/Sewer Charges

  6. Assessor's Office

  7. Simplify Things(But Don't Reinvent the Wheel) EXTERNAL INTERNAL Dep't of Environmental Protection GIS Unit Dep't of Finance Asset Management CMS Dep't of Buildings Production Tracking Databases Assessor's Office Legal Report Lexis Nexis

  8. How It Would Work • Create an Application Programming Interface (API) to fetch data from the various data sources. • Easily implemented because every property in New York City is uniquely identifiable by its borough/block/lot (BBL) number. • There are some complications here • Direct the API to feed results into a user-friendly MYSQL database report.

  9. Benefits • Efficiency! • Less staff and resources devoted to creating new databases • Project managers would spend less time tracking down the various pieces of data; would also reduce human error in manual searches • No need for people to learn a new database; they would keep using the ones they are used to. • Each element of the script would be fairly easy to modify or add to going forward • Open source nature of software means no need to rely on companies that could go bankrupt or individuals who may leave the agency • Create a coherent report giving an overall summary of a property's status • Troubling issues could be further investigated by following up with the original source • Elegant: doesn't create any new, redundant data

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