Deborah VanAmerongen

Who is Deborah VanAmerongen?

Deborah VanAmerongen joined Nixon Peabody as a strategic policy adviser in February 2010. She works closely with attorneys in the firm’s Affordable Housing practice to provide advice to developers, owners, and managers of affordable housing, as well as their financing partners, in the preservation and production of affordable housing nationwide.

VanAmerongen was appointed to serve as the 17th Commissioner of the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal in February 2007.

VanAmerongen graduated from Utica College of Syracuse University and received her M.A. of Public Administration from Rockefeller College of the State University of New York at Albany. She began her career of public service in the New York State Assembly’s Program & Counsel staff, where she had oversight of a wide range of issues, including Housing, Consumer Affairs, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs.

VanAmerongen left the NYS Assembly to accept an appointment as Director of Multifamily Housing for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the New York City region. During her tenure at HUD, she was responsible for more than 1,300 federally assisted multifamily developments in and around New York City.