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Richard Ravitch (born July 7, 1933 in New York City)

Ravitch was born July 7, 1933 in New York City, the son of Saul and Sylvia Ravitch. Saul’s parents had fled Tsarist Russia to come to America, and ran a construction business.

Ravitch was educated at Columbia College, earning an undergraduate degree in 1955, and Yale University Law School, earning a JD degree in 1958.

From 1960 to 1977 he was the chairperson of HRH Construction Corporation,

In 1966 Ravitch was appointed by then United States president Lyndon Johnson as a member of the United States Commission on Urban Problems.

In 1975 Ravitch was appointed by then New York state governor Hugh Carey to be the Chairman of New York State Urban Development Corporation, maintaining the solvency of the corporation (which was very much in doubt at the time) and completing the construction of approximately 30,000 units of housing for low-income people.