The 2026 Who’s Who in Affordable Housing

Arriving at Open New York in 2022, Annemarie Gray quickly turned a lean advocacy shop into a central force in housing politics, scaling staff fivefold while helping advance the City of Yes zoning overhaul and championing various rezonings once considered untouchable. Gray, who recently served on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Housing Transition Committee, used her experience as a former City Hall land use adviser to lift the city’s decades-old floor area ratio cap and push ballot reforms that fast-track affordable housing approvals. Gray calls the status quo of restrictive zoning and underproduction of housing something that New Yorkers “can’t afford.”