In this podcast Professor Michael Lewyn and Long Island Housing Services Executive Director, Ian Wilder discuss the problem of housing discrimination in Long Island, how state, federal and county law protects people from such discrimination, and what Long Island Housing Services does to enforce fair housing laws.
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Our guest this episode is Professor Michael Lewyn and Long Island Housing Services Executive Director, Ian Wilder.
Michael Lewyn teaches property, land use and environmental law. Originally from Atlanta, he graduated from Wesleyan University and received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. After clerking for two federal judges and practicing law for several years, he began his teaching career. Most of Professor Lewyn’s scholarship focuses on urban and suburban development, and in particular the question of “sprawl”: why some cities are walkable and full of vitality, while others have been overshadowed by suburbs where car ownership is a necessity.
Ian Wilder was appointed Executive Director by the Long Island Housing Services’ Board of Directors as of January 29, 2018. He had been the Acting Executive Director from August 2017 to January 2018. He was previously the Deputy Director from May 2016 to July 2017 and the Program Manager for the Foreclosure Prevention program funded by the New York State Office of Attorney General Home Ownership Protection Program grant starting in May 2012. While a Program Manager, Wilder continued in the role of Staff Attorney for Long Island Housing Services’ Foreclosure Prevention Project, the capacity in which he worked since September 2010. Prior to those positions, his work with Long Island Housing Services began in January 2009 as a full-time Housing Counselor focusing on foreclosure prevention and landlord-tenant counseling. He passed the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage counseling exam in December 2009.
Prior to his association with Long Island Housing Services, Wilder worked from June 1994 to December 2008 (14 years) as a New York State licensed attorney in private practice with an emphasis on real estate issues in Nassau and Suffolk counties. During that time he developed a holistic view of housing issues by working with home buyers, home sellers, landlords, tenants, realtors, mortgage bankers, bank attorneys, government officials, landlord-tenant attorneys, real estate attorneys, and builders.
Wilder also brings a wealth of related experience from his personal life. He has spent his personal time over the last two decades as a social justice advocate, honing his communication and organizing skills. In addition. he has served as a board member for a number of nonprofit and community organizations where he has held the positions of Treasurer, Secretary, President, and Co-chair. As a writer, his work has been published in local magazines, newspapers, and poetry journals.
Wilder has a J.D. from George Washington University Law School and a B.B.A. in Management from Hofstra University. He is a life-long learner who follows the maxim of Stephen Covey in the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” to constantly “sharpen the saw”. Wilder has taken classes in nonviolent communication; acting for better presentation; poetry theater; and master classes in poetry. Wilder reads and listens to college classes on CD on a breadth of topics including management, communication, history, politics, economics, physics, social justice, and comparative religion.
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