Supervises, maintains and develops affordable low- and moderate-income housing in the state through these programs:community development: administers housing development and community preservation programs, such as state and federal grants and loans to housing developers to partially finance construction or renovation of affordable housinghousing operations: oversees and regulates the state's public and publicly assisted rental housingrent administration: administers the rent regulation process for more than one million rent-regulated apartments in New York City and Albany, Erie, Nassau, Rensselaer, Rockland, Schenectady and Westchester Countiespolicy research and development: studies the long-term housing needs of the state and help develop appropriate policies