Ex-housing chief is back as Bill deputy

Mayor de Blasio announced Thursday that Vicki Been — his former head of Housing Preservation and Development — will be his new deputy mayor.

Been will replace Alicia Glen, a former Goldman Sachs executive and lightning rod among liberals, who oversaw the mayor’s affordable-housing plan and announced her departure from the administration in December.

Been left city government after serving de Blasio for three years in his first term to work as a professor at New York University in 2017.

In her new posting, she’ll manage the New York City Housing Authority, which was placed under a federal receivership after scandals — many first reported in the Daily News — rocked the agency. She will also head the city’s economic development efforts.

“As HPD commissioner, Vicki changed everything about affordable housing in New York City,” de Blasio said. “As deputy mayor, she will dig deeper and ratchet up all our efforts to confront the biggest crisis facing our city: affordability.”

De Blasio, who made the announcement in City Hall’s Blue Room, said Been will be focused on making New York “the fairest big city in America.”

During her time at HPD, Been helped finance 62,000 units of affordable housing and was instrumental to changing city zoning codes to pave the way for such housing.

“It’s time to be bolder and find new, innovative ways to respond to the city’s affordability crisis,” she said.