Mayor Eric Adams’ chief housing officer, Jessica Katz, is stepping down, a little over a year after he appointed her to oversee multiple agencies, including the New York City Housing Authority and the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

In a statement released Wednesday, Adams said Katz “worked every day to ensure that New Yorkers were at the center of our housing policies, whether an individual experiencing homelessness, a family living in NYCHA, or a lifelong New Yorker struggling to stay in the neighborhood they love.”

“Our administration and the entire city are grateful for her service,” he added.

Katz was tasked with overseeing NYCHA, HPD, the New York City Housing Development Corporation, the Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery Operations and the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants when Adams appointed her to the newly created position in January 2022.

Her appointment came as the city faced down an affordability crisis and an increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness. At the time, NYCHA was also seeking more than $40 billion in funding for repairs.

News of her departure comes as the city struggles to find housing for both its existing unhoused population and the thousands of migrants who have arrived in recent months.

The City Council is also expected to pass legislation that would make it easier for people to leave shelters with the help of housing vouchers, which advocates say would make more room for arriving migrants. But according to reports, Adams is against the measure.

Speaking with NY1’s Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Tuesday night, Adams’ chief of staff, Camille Joseph Varlack, said the city is currently caring for approximately 93,000 people without housing, including migrants and city residents.

In a statement released Wednesday, Katz did not say why she was stepping down, but praised Adams for “uplift[ing] the voices of NYCHA residents and people with lived experience of homelessness,” adding that he had “given them access to the decisions that impact their lives.”

“I am proud to have worked with this entire team to set the course for our city’s housing policy,” she said.

The city did not confirm when Katz’s last day will be.