Mark Price

Mark Price is the Director of Capital Markets for New York State Homes & Community Renewal. In that role, he manages the issuance of bonds for the New York State Housing Financing Agency (HFA) and the State of New York Mortgage Agency (SONYMA). Mark oversees HFA’s and SONYMA’s annual issuance of $1.5 to $2.0 billion of bonds and over $20 billion of outstanding debt. HFA and SONYMA bonds have funded an annual average of 5100 units of affordable housing and 1700 mortgage loans to first time home buyers, respectively, to carry out HCR’s mission of building, preserving and protecting affordable housing and increasing home ownership across the State of New York. Mark has nearly 25 years of municipal finance experience as a public finance banker and government finance professional. He has taken part in significant municipal finance transactions during his career including overseeing the issuance of the City of Atlanta’s first tax increment transactions while he was the City’s Debt Manager and as a banker, advising the Detroit Downtown Development Authority on its first bond transaction after Detroit emerged from bankruptcy. Additionally, Mark was a key member of the financing team for the City of Chicago’s first Social Bond transaction which won the Bond Buyer’s 2023 Deal of the Year. Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University. Additionally, he is a board member of the Municipal Forum of New York.