Joy Sinderbrand manages the New York City Housing Authority’s Capital Programs under the Asset & Capital Management Division. Capital Programs is delivering historic levels of investment to public housing residents by incorporating innovative building materials, construction methods, and technology. Leveraging in-house experience with industry best practices, the new vertical is responsible for project delivery that has increased four-fold in the past few years. Previously, Joy was the Vice President of the Recovery and Resilience Department, which invested almost $3 billion repairing lasting damage from Superstorm Sandy and investing in precedent-setting resilience elements protecting structure and infrastructure at 35 developments housing over 60,000 low-income New Yorkers. Her background in major capital projects includes Port Authority of New York and New Jersey efforts to increase capacity at New York’s Penn Station and redevelopment of the World Trade Center. She holds a joint master’s degree in Public Affairs and Urban & Regional Planning from Princeton University and a BA from the University of Maryland Honors College.
Speaking at
Tue Apr 09
11:00 AM — 11:20 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time
New York Hilton Midtown - Level 3, Americas Hall I - Area B
Climate Adaptation at Waterfront Affordable Housing: How NYCHA Invested $3B to Protect 60,000 New Yorkers
In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)–the largest landlord in North America–invested more than $3 billion to repair damage from the storm and look ahead to protect 200 multi-family buildings from future climate hazards. NYCHA incorporated passive and deployable systems to protect structures and critical infrastructure from flooding and installed generators to provide full back up power. In this session, we'll show how to retrofit 50–80-year-old brick buildings to withstand storm surge, sea level rise, extreme rain, and power outages. We'll also talk to some of the universal operationalization challenges of these resilience strategies that every property owner should keep in mind.