Russell A. Kivler

Russell A. Kivler is a New York real estate lawyer and a Managing Partner at Hirschen Singer & Epstein LLP. His practice centers on the development and preservation of regulated housing, representing developers, owners, and equity investors in public-private partnerships, large-scale affordable and mixed-use developments, acquisitions, financings, and joint ventures. For over 25 years, he has been trusted counsel to many of New York City's leading affordable and mixed-income developers.

Decades in practice gave Kivler a first-hand view of two things at once: the real progress New York City has made in building and operating regulated housing, and the inefficiencies buried in a maze of manual compliance paperwork. Rather than accepting that friction as a fixed cost of the work, he applied years of operational insight to addressing the bottleneck directly. Designed for the people who actually use it, applicants and leasing agents, Harmony automates the steps technology handles best for a clearer, faster, more secure process that everyone can trust.