The Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority hired a new president and CEO on Tuesday.
Joaquin Cintrón Vega will replace Demetria Simpson, who led the public housing authority since 2017 but left to take a job closer to her family.
Mr. Cintrón Vega was most recently the director of public housing for the nation’s seventh-largest housing authority, the Miami-Dade County Public Housing and Community Development Department in Florida, but he is a familiar face at LMHA.
He was previously LMHA’s chief financial officer and director of asset management.
He also served under the Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration as head of the budget bureau and was a key partner in one of the largest low-income housing tax credit projects in the country, LMHA officials said. That project rehabilitated more than 4,000 housing units across 33 properties in Puerto Rico.
Mr. Cintrón Vega has a bachelor’s degree from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico.
First Published March 18, 2020, 8:53 p.m.
