Meet the BMAR Member - Dale

Bruce Dale, a dedicated affordable housing advocate, has been part of the The Community Preservation Corp. (CPC) family for 27 years, most recently, serving as senior vice president and regional director overseeing the Bronx and Manhattan. In this capacity, Dale oversaw the entire loan process from origination through underwriting, construction supervision and conversion to permanent financing while managing a team of mortgage officers. Throughout his career at CPC, Dale fostered many valuable partnerships with state, city and not-for profit organizations, which contributed to the financing of nearly $1 billion and 30,000 quality affordable housing units, specifically in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. Formerly, Dale was a mortgage officer in the Manhattan/Bronx Office responsible for all of CPC's loan activity in northern Manhattan and development of new activity in Harlem. Prior to joining CPC, Dale worked at New York City's Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) as director of operations for rehabilitation programs. In this role, he was responsible for three programs, 4,000 units of city-owned housing, a budget of approximately $22 million and a staff of 35 people. Before that, Dale was HPD's director of the Bureau of Rehabilitation Programs and prior to that, he was director of HPD's Management in Partnership Program. Before joining HPD, Dale held a number of positions as an architect and urban planner including eight months with the N.Y.C. Department of City Planning and five years in Rome, Italy during which he specialized in Historic Preservation. He has lectured, organized public forums and published articles on the urban environment in the United States and Europe. Dale received his B.A. degree from Brooklyn College and his Masters of Philosophy, Urban Planning and Masters of Architecture from Columbia University. Dale currently resides in the Village of Hastings-On Hudson and serves on their planning board.