Gale A. Brewer
Neighborhood Success Stories,
05/2018
Book Chapter
Carol Lamberg knows her stuff, and she shares it all in this book. It’s a testament to her decades-long struggle to create affordable housing in New York City by any means necessary—one that has great relevance today, even as federal support for housing programs has dwindled to a trickle.
Carol’s tenure as executive director of Settlement Housing Fund began in 1983 and took flight with the efforts sponsored by then mayor Ed Koch to create 225,000 units of affordable housing.
The Koch administration chose Settlement Housing to manage the renovation and occupancy of a nine-hundred-apartment development in the West
