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NEW YORK (Sept. 23, 2025) — Ayesha Khan, Chief Development Officer at Volunteers of America-Greater New York, joined California Attorney General Rob Bonta on stage at Concordia Annual Summit to speak about how public-private partnerships can be solutions to America’s housing crisis.
Khan presented Hillside Grove, VOA-GNY’s latest affordable housing project on Staten Island, as an example of how the organization leverages public and private partnerships to advance housing development.
Hillside Grove, a mixed-use development on the site of a former Sanitation Department garage, will feature 232 units of affordable housing with 90 reserved for low-income seniors, a courtyard space for residents, a public plaza, and a grocery store.
“As a nonprofit housing developer, we have a unique value proposition to offer the community.” Khan said. “We’ve already established trust and credibility in the communities we’re serving and we’re not motivated by profit. We are reinvesting any developer fees we receive on projects back into the community, as is evident by the Staten Island project, really revitalizing those communities.”
Watch the full panel session on YouTube.
Now in its 15th year, the Concordia Annual Summit is a major nonpartisan global affairs forum held in New York City during the UN General Assembly week, bringing together leaders from government, business, and nonprofits to foster public-private partnerships and address pressing global challenges through dialogue and collaboration, focusing on issues like technology, sustainability, and economic development.
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About Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America is a national, nonprofit, faith-based organization dedicated to helping those in need live healthy, safe and productive lives. Since 1896, we have supported and empowered America’s most vulnerable groups, including veterans, seniors, people with disabilities, at-risk youth, men and women returning from prison, homeless individuals and families, those recovering from addictions and many others. Through hundreds of human service programs, including housing and health care, Volunteers of America helps more than 1.5 million people in over 400 communities. Learn more at www.voa.org.
About Volunteers of America-Greater New York
Volunteers of America-Greater New York (VOA-GNY) is an anti-poverty organization with a rich 125+ year history of serving our neighbors in need. Our vision is fueled by our experience as a leading provider of services to families and individuals experiencing homelessness in the greater New York area. Through more than 70 programs located in New York City, Northern New Jersey, andWestchester County—including emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing—we deliver services to more than 12,000 adults and children annually. We are also the largest provider of residential services for veterans within a coalition that has virtually ended chronic homelessness for veterans in New York City.
