NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed a law professor and former federal prosecutor to head the New York City Rent Guidelines Board.
The mayor’s office said Thursday that Rachel Godsil specializes in housing, land use and social justice issues.
The Rent Guidelines Board determines annual rent adjustments for some one million rent-stabilized apartments throughout the city
Godsil is a professor of law at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, N.J.
She is a former prosecutor for the Southern District of New York.
Godsil also had represented the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund on environmental justice issues.
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