De Blasio Taps a Goldman Executive as Deputy Mayor of Housing Bill de Blasio, who wants to raise taxes on rich New Yorkers, brushed aside questions about Alicia Glen's ties to Goldman Sachs, saying, "I don't care about any stereotypes or assumptions." Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, who has laid out a plan to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers, tapped a company where many of them work to find his newest top-level appointee. On Monday, Mr. de Blasio announced that Alicia Glen, an executive of the Goldman Sachs investment banking firm and a former city official, will be the deputy mayor for housing and economic development. Goldman is known for having some of the highest-paid executives in corporate America and for paying its bankers and traders more than they would earn at other Wall Street firms. Mr. de Blasio and Ms. Glen said at a news conference in a Brooklyn factory that, as deputy mayor, she would focus on building more affordable housing and helping connect low-income residents to jobs that pay enough to support their families. Mr. de Blasio said his administration would demand "living-wage jobs" from companies that receive tax breaks and other subsidies from the city - a requirement that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg staunchly opposed. Referring to the central theme of Mr. de Blasio's campaign, Ms. Glen said, "The tale of two cities is not O.K." Ms. Glen said she did not think her co-workers at Goldman would object to paying higher taxes so that Mr. de Blasio could fulfill his promise of providing universal prekindergarten to the city's children. Ms. Glen, 47, said that, being a banker, she calculated that the proposed tax increase would amount to only about $1,000 a year to those who make $750,000 or more annually. That increase, she said, breaks down to approximately $3.50 a day, or the cost of one latte. Ms. Glen's portfolio will include the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the New York City Housing Authority, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio said. Mr. de Blasio said it mattered less to him that Ms. Glen worked for Goldman than that he thought she was the best available person for the job. "I don't care about any stereotypes or assumptions," Mr. de Blasio said in response to a question about the Goldman link. I care about who shares my values and can get the job done. At the news conference, Mr. de Blasio also introduced Laura Santucci as his chief of staff. Ms. Santucci, 32, a former union official and interim director of the Democratic National Committee, has been the executive director of the mayor-elect's transition team. Mr. de Blasio said Ms. Santucci had played a critical role in helping him choose members of his incoming administration. Word of the selection of Ms. Glen began to circulate last week, but some who had heard about Mr. de Blasio's decision said they doubted she would leave Goldman, where she has worked for more than a decade. A deputy mayor earns about $212,000 a year, or less than even junior investment bankers make. Before joining Goldman, Ms. Glen was the assistant commissioner for housing finance at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development for four years under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. She has a degree from Columbia Law School and worked at a law firm before going to work for the city. At Goldman, Ms. Glen runs a division that focuses on good works. She is the head of the company's Urban Investment Group, which helps to finance projects in communities that have trouble obtaining loans and attracting private investment. Among the group's projects was a $9.6 million loan for a four-year program to try to reduce recidivism by young men released from jail at Rikers Island. Another was the Citi Bike bike-sharing program. Ms. Glen has shrugged off suggestions that Goldman is driven by greed, a notion most vividly propagated in a 2009 article in Rolling Stone magazine that called the firm "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity." In an interview this summer with Crain's New York Business, Ms. Glen said, "We're not all evil squids. We're nice little calamari.