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Torres-Springer will leave the de Blasio administration to join the Ford Foundation as vice president of US programs.

Maria Torres-Springer has worked in the de Blasio administration for five years, including the last two as commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development Maria Torres-Springer has worked in the de Blasio administration for five years, including the last two as commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development

NEW YORK CITY—The de Blasio administration announced on Friday that Housing Preservation and Development commissioner Maria Torres-Springer will be stepping down in early March to join the private sector.

Torres-Springer will leave the de Blasio administration to join the Ford Foundation as vice president of US programs. She took over two years ago replacing Vicki Benn as head of the HPD. Her appointment came as part of a shakeup by the mayor. Torres-Springer previously was the head of the city’s Economic Development Corp. She was replaced in that post by James Patchett, an advisor to the mayor on housing issues and chief of staff for deputy mayor Alicia Glen.

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