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Bradford S. "Brad" Lander is the Council member for the 39th District of the New York City Council. He is a Democrat. The district includes portions of Boerum Hill, Borough Park, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Flatbush, Gowanus, Green-Wood Cemetery, Kensington, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Prospect Park, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Red Hook, South Slope, Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Housing Advocate Brad Lander to Run for DeBlasio's Council Spot – Daily Intel )〕 ==Life and career== A graduate of the University of Chicago where he received the Harry S. Truman Scholarship and he attended the University College London on a Marshall Scholarship, and Pratt Institute. Lander came into to public notice as an affordable housing advocate that has negotiated important affordable housing concessions from the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg in major development projects. He directed the Pratt Center for Community Development (formerly PICCED) and the Fifth Avenue Committee. He served for a decade as executive director of the Fifth Avenue Committee, a not-for-profit community-based organization that develops and manages affordable housing. As a director, Lander won local and national recognition for his work at FAC including the 2000 New York Magazine Civics Award, and the 2002 Leadership for a Changing World award, sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Sustainable Communities.〔 In 1999 ''Rolling Stone Magazine'' awarded Lander the "Do Something Brick Award" for his community work in affordable housing. Other awards from the Ford Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation and the University of Chicago were granted throughout his tenure as a director. Lander is the former Director of the Pratt Center for Community Development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Brad Lander – Rooflines – National Housing Institute )〕 He stepped down after six years as head of the organization to seek a seat on the New York City Council.〔(Pratt Center official website )〕 He still teaches community planning, housing, and urban policy at Brooklyn Law School.〔(Lander profile at Brooklyn Law School website )〕 As the director of the Pratt Center,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pratt Institute )〕 Lander has been a critic of the Bloomberg administration's development policies. he has also been a critic of the Atlantic Yards project.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn )〕 Lander's work in 2003–2005 on the Greenpoint-Williamsburg rezoning led to the first New York City inclusionary housing program to create affordable housing in new development outside Manhattan Lander was a key leader in forming a coalition that repealed the 421-a tax break for luxury housing and required that new development. He co-led the completion of the One City One Future platform,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Travel and Car Rentals )〕 a progressive vision for economic development in New York City. A Brooklyn resident of nearly two decades, he lives in Park Slope with his wife, Meg Barnette, the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Planned Parenthood NYC, and their children. He also served as the Housing Chair of Brooklyn Community Board 6, serves on the board of directors of the Jewish Funds for Justice, and is a little league coach in the 78th Precinct Youth Council. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brad Lander」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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