The leader of a nonprofit developer of affordable housing will be the state’s next housing commissioner, according to The Connecticut Mirror.

The publication reported last week that Seila Mosquera, the president and CEO of the Mutual Housing Association of South Central Connecticut, is Gov. Ned Lamont’s choice for the position. The Mirror cited members of the legislature’s Black and Puerto Rican Caucus.

The Mutual Housing Association does business as New Haven-based NeighborWorks New Horizons. The nonprofit owns or manages 24 developments with 610 apartments in Ansonia, Branford, Bridgeport, Guilford, Hamden, Milford, New Haven, Norwich, Stonington and Waterbury.

Mosquera has been with the nonprofit since the mid-1990s and has been the CEO for 15 years. She has a master’s degree in urban studies from Southern Connecticut State University and completed an 18-month program in community development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Her appointment is expected to be formally announced next week.

Former Gov. Dannel Malloy elevated the Housing Department to a standalone agency in 2013, an element of a campaign to end chronic homelessness and overhaul neglected state housing projects, many of them dotted with vacant and uninhabitable apartments. The state invested $1.5 billon in affordable housing during Malloy’s eight years as governor.

Under Lamont, the new administration has already cut the department’s capital spending request from $252 million to $4.5 million, part of Lamont’s “debt diet.” The department’s current-year capital budget is $160 million.

Lamont has thus far named 10 new department heads, two of whom are black. He has reappointed 10 others from the previous administration, two of whom are black. One of the holdovers, Banking Commissioner Jorge Perez, is Hispanic.

Housing is one of seven state agencies with vacancies at the top. The department is small, with just 23 full-time positions in the state budget.