An all-star team. That's how Mayor Eric Adams is describing his new group of housing policy veterans who will tackle housing, one of the most pressing crises the city is facing.

Developing new housing and keeping the ones that already exist affordable, helping to house the homeless, and providing a pathway for home ownership in the city are all part of Mayor Adams' housing agenda.

"I said from day one of my campaign that we are going to end the housing affordability crisis, and this is the team of extraordinary leaders who will do just that,” Adams said Sunday during an announcement in the rotunda of City Hall.

Jessica Katz, the former executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, will serve as Adams' chief housing officer. Her portfolio will include HPD, HDC, NYCHA, the Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery Operations and the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants.

"I spent the last four years dreaming up new ways to make our housing policies meet the needs of the moment," Katz said. "I'm so excited to put some of those big ideas and small but vital policy changes into action," Katz said.

The position of chief housing officer is a newly created post and a change from the previous administration, which had a deputy mayor for housing. Instead of naming a deputy mayor, Adams created the new position, which will report directly to Adams' first deputy mayor, Lorraine Grillo.

Rachel Fee, executive director of the New York Housing Conference, said there is some concern among housing advocates about the new structure.

"We want to give this new administration a chance and see how this new position works out, but you know, there are still these silos in government around housing issues that could be a problem," Fee said.

Adams' housing team also includes Adolfo Carrion Jr. who formerly served in the City Council, as Bronx borough president and in President Barack Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development. Carrion will serve as commissioner for Housing Preservation and Development. Eric Enderlin, who is currently the president of the Housing Development Corporation, will be reappointed to his position.

The task at hand is massive: New Yorkers are facing a crisis of affordability, homelessness has increased, the New York City Housing Authority needs more than $40 billion for repairs, and advocates point to a system run across different agencies that often leaves New Yorkers in need facing additional hurdles.

"There is a lot of improvement in terms of how the city delivers affordable housing to New Yorkers," Fee said "There is opportunity to make it easier for New Yorkers to apply and to show that they're eligible, especially when you look at folks who are staying in the city's homeless system."

On that subject, Adams has made it clear he doesn't believe shelters are the way out of the housing crisis.

"We cannot think that we are doing our job by the mere fact that we build a shelter at a different location," Adams said.

But building new affordable housing will mean potential community opposition, the high cost of subsidizing apartments and, perhaps most importantly, figuring out how to create truly affordable for low income New Yorkers. The mayor's plan on how exactly he plans to do that remains to be seen.