LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

The restructuring of Louisville leaders continued Thursday as Mayor Craig Greenberg announced the metro’s new Office of Behavioral Health.

Maria Leyderman was appointed to lead the new office, which is tasked with addressing root causes in Louisville’s ongoing crisis around housing and homelessness.

“I am so incredibly excited to see the next chapter and the direction that our city will go,” Leydermen said.

The new office is an extension of the mayor’s Home for Good initiative, aiming to place 250 people in permanent supportive housing by 2027. It comes as the metro still faces a major shortage of affordable housing, even with several development projects complete and others in the works.

“I want us to get to a point where we have no one sleeping on the street in thi

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